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"You think you hike up a mountain by sprinting all the way, do you? You need a place to rest as much as anyone, if you don't want to crack like bad steel."
Fisher Gesha

Lindon's duel with Jai Long is finally upon him. He is still two stages lower, but he has a powerful path, tools to aid him, and a plan.

The duel, it seems, will not be Lindon's biggest problem. Jai Daishou, in his rage against Eithan, has tempted a power he should not have touched. If the Dreadgods rise, the entire Empire will be in danger.

Yerin has something to say about the local Dreadgod cult, Redmoon Hall. Followers of the Bleeding Phoenix, she and her master fought them in the past. She decides that she will fight them no matter what—even if it means abandoning the Arelius family. Even if it means joining the Skysworn who imprisoned Lindon for months.

Now Lindon must choose between staying with Yerin, or staying with the family. But the Skysworn might not be happy to have either of them...

Skysworn is the fourth novel in the Cradle Series by Will Wight. It is the first of the Path of Gold collection.


This novel provides examples of:

  • The Alcatraz: The Skysworn keep Lindon in a prison with multiple layers of ridiculous security, including a poison waterfall door and a bottomless pit.
  • Foil: Eithan fights a Redmoon Underlord who wears dark, shapeless clothing, wields a heavy hook and chain, and can barely speak. Contrast Eithan, who wears bright, fashionable clothing, wields a pair of fabric scissors, and never stops talking.
  • Godzilla Threshold: Jai Daishou opened the Labyrinth to find a weapon capable of defeating Eithan. The problem is that the Dreadgods can sense when the Labyrinth is open, and the Bleeding Phoenix begins to stir.
  • It's All About Me: As far as Jai Daishou is concerned, his family will die the second he's gone, so there's no need to preserve it beyond his revenge.
  • Spanner in the Works: As horrible as Jai Daishou's gamble was, he was right, it shouldn't have caused a Dreadgod to rise. Makiel deliberately interfered with Fate in order to give Lindon and crew a threat to push them off Cradle faster.

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