The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #3)

by Seth Dickinson

old. I’ve spent my entire life thinking about how to be a better person. My capacity to be a terrible person is undiminished by that work, as a pit is undiminished by the construction of a tower. But I can set myself aright when I falter.

The world here had been rubbed naked to the primordial chaos.