The Planar Experience Handbook

Novice writers, please bear with me. If you don't like me, please leave. Don't hurt me. The author has a soft heart. Don't scold me if you scold me lightly. This is an epic about pain and silence, not a fantasy novel in the traditional sense. The protagonist Aiden Valerius has two powers of order and freedom flowing in his body at the same time. The left half of his body is burned and the right half is frozen. He is torn apart throughout his life but cannot choose either side. As a ghostly "observer", he traveled between the church's stakes and the underground rituals of free believers, seeing the light and darkness of order, the beauty and price of freedom. The appearance of Lydia - the only female physician who can "see" him, the only one who says "You don't have to bear it alone" - injects a glimmer of light into the cold and oppressive narrative, while her execution at the stake pushes the protagonist deeper into silence. The novel does not give the answer of "choice", but asks: If pain is all existence, then is witnessing itself a kind of meaning? The writing style is concise and cold, and images such as ashes, fog, and moonlight appear repeatedly, creating a rich dark medieval atmosphere. This is not a work that makes people's blood boil, but a lament for all the souls that are silently moving forward in the tearing. The pain never stopped, but silence chose them.