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Roots and Claws
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Publisher: Ivan Marychenko
Published: Jan 10 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Roots and Claws is a philosophical adventure fantasy about a journey through forms of existence - and the price of becoming human.
The narrator is not a hero in the usual sense. He is a traveler, moving through worlds and states of being: from instinctive animal life to silent forests, from divine stasis to fragile humanity. Each form offers power, safety, or peace - and each demands something in return.
When he enters the world of early humans, everything changes.
Here, death does not dissolve. It stays.
Fear does not pass. It accumulates.
Memory does not belong to individuals - it begins to outlive them.
In this world, the first rituals are born not from faith, but from horror. Guilt appears before morality has words. Stories arise before history exists. And the human mind learns a dangerous skill: judging itself not only by actions, but by intentions.
As the narrator moves forward, he faces the greatest temptation of all - to stop. To remain in a world that offers peace without lies, meaning without struggle, and life without responsibility for everything beyond its borders.
But stagnation, even gentle, is still a trap.
To continue means losing form again. Losing home again. Accepting that no world will ever be final. That movement itself is the only proof of life.
At the edge of worlds, the narrator must choose: to dissolve into memory, to become a god for others, or to remain human - weak, incomplete, and responsible.
Roots and Claws is a journey through Paradise as stagnation, Humanity as burden, and Hell as a world of broken direction. It explores how rituals, myths, morality, and history emerge not from enlightenment, but from fear, loss, and the refusal to stop asking questions.
This is not a story about saving the world.
It is a story about learning to stand on the ground - even when the ground does not explain itself.
For readers of philosophical fantasy, metaphysical adventures, and stories where action and danger give birth to meaning rather than replace it.
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