Second Son of the Belshazar Clan: An atheist at heart, Caelestis searches for purpose on his own terms and fights the religious morality of his age with stern silence and humble obedience to his cruel master. A knight in training, if he succeeds he will become an Erelim Sil, a Guardian of God. 
Having lost his mother and lived far from his father, Caelestis wants nothing but to reconnect to the very things he believes matter the most. In search of his creators, both genetic and memetic, he finds a great emptiness of meaning, a deep well from which he may never rise unless he learns to define himself and the value of the world. In a world where God is reachable, where you can see her, hear her, touch her, if you're fortunate, he decides to deny her. He proclaims to his most inner self that there is no god, for there's no supremacy of the kind. He seeks now to understand what a man without a maker can be in the world, what he can create to make the world a better place, and what he can learn from this replacement of the highest power. If there's no god, then I'll be like a god and make this world as intended. He, more than most, faces the reality of a maker's sin, the very title of the book, as he faces the ways in which we make ourselves through our deeds.