Elantris

by Brandon Sanderson

Elantris was the city of the gods - home to beings of silver skin and impossible power, sustained by the magic of AonDor. Then, ten years ago, the Shaod stopped granting its transformative gift and began delivering a curse instead. Now the once-radiant city rots, and those taken by the Shaod are cast inside its walls to suffer an eternity of pain without the release of death. Set on the planet Sel in the Cosmere, the Elantris series explores a world where magic is tied to geography, faith is wielded as a weapon, and the line between divinity and damnation is thinner than anyone suspects.