Ravenbound:the shadow initiate

In a realm devoured by broken covenants, Aelric—last heir of the massacred Shadowblood clan—clutches a cursed obsidian shard, his only legacy. When a raven-marked stranger demands the relic in exchange for survival, Aelric surrenders it... and secretly forges a duplicate, awakening a forbidden power: whatever he touches, he can steal.



But every stolen pact fractures his soul. Black ice blooms from his blood, his shadow claws with a will of its own, and the raven binding him whispers with two warring voices—one divine, one damned. Hunted by sects and haunted by his family’s buried sins, Aelric discovers his "rescue" was a decades-old scheme in a war between dead gods.

To survive, he must steal divine truths. To live, he must betray them all.