The sigil of the House of the Lily clings to life, smouldering on a bent banner on the plains of Godsfeld. If the histories were ever to chronicle the collapse of the Sarpathian Empire, surely they would start here. The emperor's firstborn and true heir, Serilla Dillianos, has lived under the strange and dark rule of her new occupiers for nearly three years, shut off from the broken remains of the city her ancestors protected for centuries. But when a revelation threatens to violate the sanctity of her being, the call to flee is too strong to ignore, thrusting the firstborn and her young sister into a dangerous and sudden flight across a realm desolated by conflict. A thousand leagues away in a foreign land, a broken man withers in a cell under the crushing shame of defeat. He fights to survive, and each day the bite of his reality cuts deeper. Forgotten by myth and memory, a long-banished power begins to breath again, weaving fate and fortune. A power that may redeem or end the world once and for all.
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