Rise of Dresca is the opening book in a fantasy series set in a world plagued by evil. The story follows a former artillery captain, Valdaris Drascar, after the fall of his home nation to invaders. He encounters a cult whose followers, unknown to him, are parasitized by a semi-conscious organism that thrives on chaos, destruction and suffering. The cultists sacrifice him to a swarm of these parasites, the draemeir, and leave him for dead. But the draemeir, in an attempt to create a conscious host imbued with their collective knowledge and malevolence, recreate the captain into something unexpected. The story followers his journey from different characters’ viewpoints, revolving around a single question: who is the real villain here?