Night of the Necrotech
Exiles in Arms • Book 2
by C.L. Werner
Why You'll Love This
A city built on corruption meets an undead war machine — and two mercenaries just trying to pay rent get swallowed whole.
- Great if you want: gritty mercenary fiction soaked in dark fantasy horror
- The experience: fast and relentless — Werner wastes no pages in 188
- The writing: Werner leans hard into dread, keeping tension coiled throughout
- Skip if: you need deep worldbuilding context without prior Warmachine familiarity
About This Book
In the rotting, cutthroat streets of Five Fingers, even seasoned mercenaries like Rutger and Taryn can find themselves outmatched. When a Cryxian invasion brings something ancient and ravenous into the city's shadows, survival stops being a matter of skill and starts being a matter of luck. C.L. Werner sets his two weary sell-swords against horrors that are personal as well as supernatural, weaving together a ghost from their past with a threat that could consume the entire city. The stakes feel genuinely dangerous because Werner never lets his characters forget how fragile they are.
At under two hundred pages, Night of the Necrotech is lean and purposeful — Werner writes with the economy of someone who respects a reader's time without shortchanging the atmosphere. His prose has a grimy, kinetic quality that suits the Iron Kingdoms setting perfectly, and the pacing keeps tension coiled tight from the opening chapter. Readers already invested in Rutger and Taryn will find their partnership tested in satisfying new ways, while newcomers will have little trouble getting their footing in this dark, mechanical fantasy world.
