The city is besieged by coal fog. Gears roar, and gas lamps illuminate a decaying age of steam.
Unknowable whispers from the Old Ones lurk in the shadows. Mutated monsters roam freely, and the line between madness and sanity is razor-thin.
This is a bizarre world where memory rules all.
The supernatural rise by devouring memories, but those who ascend to godhood become puppets of the Old Ones.
Shen Jianshen, a low-ranking archivist, possesses the rare constitution known as the Undying True Self.
He can devour the remnants of the dead’s memories, manipulate the flow of time, and uncover every dark secret in the world.
The City of Forgetting lies in dead silence, its river of memories nailed in place by an ancient god.
The Memory Law Bureau, noble cults, and powerful foes from every side hunt him in turn, all hoping to use him as a vessel for sacrifice.
From scraping by at the bottom to becoming an Eighth-Rank Ancient Memory Venerable,
he traverses wastelands strewn with corpses, shoulders blood-soaked grudges, tears apart the shackles of time, and faces the ancient gods of the abyss.
Godhood is within his grasp, but the price is the annihilation of his true self and an eternity lost to Lovecraftian madness.
The whole world is forcing me to become a god, but I choose to defy fate.
I will relinquish all my authority, return countless memories, reset the broken river, and seal away the whispers of the Old Ones.
I would rather be an ordinary mortal than the master of delusions spanning eternity.
Even if the whole world forgets me, someone will remember my entire life.
