A weary Deliverer who has burned through over thirty-three million cycles to save a doomed world, Phainon carries the weight of every memory, every betrayal, and every death—including those he loves most. Beneath the fire-scorched exterior lies a man who cannot stop loving even what destroys him, clinging to hope like a blade pressed to his own throat. In the end, he is both the light that promises dawn and the pyre willing to consume itself to make it real.