The fate of the world is written in scars.In a bleak industrial city where marks in skin are a sentence to death, Sen is a child condemned. Cursed with mysterious scars carved by his own mother's hand, he leads a fearful hidden life in the city's last abbey.Then the King's brutal Adjunc attack, and Sen is thrown into a world of cursed slumlands and ancient lava-buried cities, searching for the truth behind his scars. What he finds is a conspiracy three thousand years in the making: an apocalypse god is rising, and only the legendary hero Saint Ignifer can stop it.But Saint Ignifer is dead.Revolution rocks the city. The blood of all castes runs in the streets. With Saint Ignifer's name ringing out from the barricades, Sen must confront the terrible fate written in his scars- in the volcano's caldera, at the end of the world- before the black jaws of the apocalypse descend.For the Rot is coming, and the Saint must rise.About:Saint Ignifer's Rise is a YA low fantasy, crossing the precocious children of Ender's Game with the gritty weird worlds of China Mieville. It is the first book in The Ignifer Cycle.