The Ascent to Godhood
core novel 2019 The Tensorate Series
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.97 (2,803 ratings, collected 2026-08-29) |
| Page count | 122 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250165886 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
The Ascent to Godhood, published by JY Yang in 2019, is the fourth Tensorate novella. The story opens with the death of the Protector, the powerful ruler who has shaped the nation for fifty years, and is narrated by Lady Han, once the Protector's closest companion and later her greatest enemy. Responding to an unnamed interviewer's questions, Han looks back across decades to when the future Protector, then a young woman not yet crowned, first fell into a dangerous love with Han, at the time an entertainer who had been sold first into slavery and then to a house catering to the wealthy. Told in second person as a long, unsparing confession, the novella traces how affection, ambition, and betrayal became entangled in the years before the Protector rose to power, reframing events from earlier books in the series through Han's private memory.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Tensorate Series
- Series: The Tensorate Series core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: JY Yang
Notes
- From the series record (The Tensorate Series): A completed 4-novella silkpunk sequence by a Singaporean author, set in a wuxia-inspired secondary world; each volume can be read largely independently, following different members of the same royal family across a shared timeline.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Tensorate Series: position 4 of 4: previous The Descent of Monsters (2018)
Sources
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