Scion: The Shatter Cycle : Book 1

He was grown from the same stock as the man in the green machine. He was given the mind and denied the body.Aetious has cut the Deep Union's leash out of a stolen frame, seated a Velmenite heart in its chest, and carved a new name into the bare metal - a cutting taken from a parent stock and grafted onto new roots to become something the parent never intended. SCION-1 is the most dangerous machine on Xion. It is finished in every particular but one. He cannot fly it.So he takes what he was never given. Collar by collar, village by village, he harvests the lived knowledge of people who already have it - a fisher's feel for water, a swordmaster's reflex, six generations of trained bodies - and leaves the southern coast quiet behind him.East, Sorian holds a line against creatures that drink the light out of the sea and learn from every fight he wins. He still does not know his own name. Aetious does, and will trade it for a price Sorian refuses to pay.North, An'jiel goes into the ice after something her bloodline buried four centuries ago. In the temples, an oracle-keeper who has carried two lives in one body for forty years discovers she was always being called toward a weapon built to recognize her. And behind all of it, patient as a glacier, an older power finishes what it started before any of them were born.Two machines built for the same purpose. One name between them.Only one of them was ever finished.