In the Roman-Renaissance port city of Portus Magnus, the priests of the big gods have quietly agreed to keep every other god out. Most people are refused a class at their coming-of-age petition and live as the Classless: the working majority who carry the whole city and are never once looked at. Alessandro is refused like most. But a minor god named Puck, too poor to grant a class, slips him something stranger, and a dangerous idea takes root among the passed-over: a class is a loan, and what you build yourself, you keep.
A four-book progression saga for readers of Cradle and He Who Fights With Monsters who want their underdog to rise by wit and organisation rather than brute power. No stat blocks, no chosen one, no fair fights.
The Books
Book 1
The Unchosen
On petition day the god said nothing. What begins as one refusal becomes a dangerous idea, whispered from forge to wharf: a class is a loan, but what you build yourself, you keep.
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Book 2
The Uncounted
The guilds have a quieter tool than force for people who won't kneel: accidents. Learning the grammar of that rigged luck means turning a whole quarter's gratitude into a currency no temple can tax.
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Book 3
The Unwanted
Two hundred nameless stones stand on the harbour now, each a small devotion the priest-cartel cannot unlock. Then the hungriest god asks for a bigger stone, and the mountain shows what it will let fall.
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Book 4
The Unstoppable
The bell rings wrong and the guards march the other way: someone has priced the streets worth saving. The finale, fought with boat-hooks, wet sand, and no fair fight anywhere in it.
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