To Chase Light

God is dead, but somebody still has to do the job.

For almost a thousand years the people of the Crystal Empire elect one of their own to be their God, to assume the mantle of authority and power over all creation, and to burn away in doing so. It is through this succession that the Crystal Empire has maintained its peace and stability for so long. Yet beyond the great crystalline walls that serve as the empire’s borders, each new god brings a change. Where once there was a forest may be a desert, where there were mountains may now be a sea. Temperate lands may freeze, or be washed away by constant deluge. It is from this rough, unpredictable fringe of the world that our unlikely heroine comes. Demara, a young woman from an insignificant tribe scratching out a living at the edge of the world, is the last person anyone would expect to set the world right again, yet through her determination, cleverness, and with some help from her friends, that’s just what she is going to do.