A Game of Universe

Eric Nylund's Cyberpunkish novel about a mage assassin with multiple personalities.

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Tropes used in A Game of Universe include:

• Celestial Deadline: The contract with the devil has a loophole: One year before it runs out, 13 heroes can be recruited to find the holy grail. If they find it before the contract runs out, the contract is nullified.
• Cyberpunk
• Deal with the Devil
• Deflector Shields
• Faster-Than-Light Travel: They use some odd system where they can travel faster than light but relativity still applies.
• Freudian Excuse
• God Was My Co-Pilot: Setebos, the Angel AI.
• Through the Eyes of Madness: Are the other personalities magically created or is Germain nuts?
• Journey to the Center of the Mind
• Magitek
• Meaningful Name: Morning Star (Lucifer)
• Mega Corp: Morning Star, again.
• Mental Time Travel: Germain's seven second trip.
• Murder, Inc.: Umbra Corp.
• Public Domain Artifact: The big one: The Holy Grail
• Reset Button
• Religion Is Magic
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Averted, Germain has no idea history is being altered.
• Sharing a Body
• Starfish Aliens: One alien is a hive of beetles.
• The Syndicate: Umbra Corp.
• The Worm That Walks
• Timed Mission: One year.
• To Hell and Back