"The world is a lie."
The Council of Ashes spent thousands of years erasing the truth, until the cursed warrior Keles tore open the false god's holy robe - the spark beating in his heart was the blasphemous seed most feared by the Seven Gods.
The blood-stained mechanical gears turned the Doomsday Clock, and the clone priest Lirael saw her own death thousands of times in the memory fragments. When the ash vine parasitic on the right arm collides with the silver chain that predicts the future, the entire continent will hear the roar of the collapse of the divine skeleton.