“Mercy is a kindness given where justice might forbid it.”
— Elias

When you have the power to hurt someone, what makes you choose restraint?

Elias gives mercy a difficult definition in The Veilbound Genesis. It asks us to consider the space between what a person might deserve and what another person decides to give them. Anger, fear, and survival can all make a forceful argument. Choosing kindness in their presence carries a weight of its own.

The dark fantasy of Ebonreach leaves room for those moral questions alongside its shadows and ancient powers. A character's strength can emerge in the moment they decide how much of that power to use, and what kind of person that decision will allow them to become.

This quote offers a glimpse of the human stakes within a dangerous world, without giving away the circumstances in which Elias speaks it.

Begin the series with The Veilbound Genesis by Skol Hawthorne.

Is mercy most powerful when it is deserved, or when it is hardest to offer?

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