The Crown of Ruin

There are doors inside Isaac’s mind.

After seventeen years at St. Mary’s, Isaac returns to a world where hunters fight monsters and strength can be measured. Opening those doors makes him stronger. It also brings back questions about who he was.

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The world Isaac returns to

Everyone understands the new rules except him.

Everyone else has had seventeen years to learn how this world works. Isaac has to learn while surviving it. Even his own memories give him reasons to question what he’s been told.

Rift Bestiary field plate for Haintlantern Doe — Haintlantern Doe · Art by Bastien Boulai

Rift Bestiary field plate for Wayfinding Regent — Wayfinding Regent · Art by Bastien Boulai

Rift Bestiary field plate for Hinge-Sliver Manifold — Hinge-Sliver Manifold · Art by Bastien Boulai

Recovered from the Rift Bestiary

The monsters have left evidence.

100 commissioned plates recovered. The archive is complete.

Recovered field studies preserve what survivors learned: the forms they recognized, the signs they feared, and the rules that kept some of them alive.

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The Path of Madness by Nick Blade: two figures confronting a towering armored monster

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The Path of Madness

Isaac Hawthorne returns after seventeen missing years to a world that moved on without him. The Path of Madness is available now: dark LitRPG fantasy with brutal combat, dangerous progression, psychological horror, and found family.

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