In a theocracy that brands the Marked as demons, shapeshifter Warrick gathers
a found family to dethrone a false god and break the lie that turns the world
against them—before a world-binding amulet erases their kind. 

SYNOPSIS:

Warrick, hiding the glowing spiral Mark on his collarbone in the zealot-ruled city of

Samanakin, is exposed as a shapeshifter by his best friend Sigan during a fevered

church confession—igniting a brutal mob chase. Fleeing through sand-shift escapes,

he acquires the legendary blade War Legend from Zorlco, a Mech-Dealer. He then

joins forces with telekinetic orphan Opal and the soul-pirate Cortez, whose ghost crew

ferries them to the hidden island of Zamon, ruled by the immortal Willa.

In a haunting flashback, Willa reveals that Ghathalis is no god but an alien invader

who crash-landed centuries ago. Wielding a mind-controlling amulet, he branded the

gifted and twisted faith into fear—turning the world against its own defenders.

Rallying the Branded—the energy-disc monk Bao and the wolf-syndrome twins

Yanka and Panya—Warrick and Opal lead a daring assault on Ghathalis’s fused

spaceship lair. In the climactic battle, Warrick slays the false god with a paralyzing

fang, but victory curdles to betrayal: Willa, revealed as Ghathalis’s sister, seizes the

amulet, enslaves his twin Kaylien, and escapes to forge a new empire. Vowing to

rescue his sister and hunt Willa across worlds, Warrick becomes the living symbol of

rebellion—the Branded against the gods.