The Moon Rising
1,250 years before Hector Vargassian's birth, an empire falls and a disgraced prince must decide what kind of ruler deserves to rise from its ashes.
Prince Anatole Kalasar was born to inherit Galmar. Instead, pride, rebellion, and exile leave him isolated in a frozen fortress, drowning his anger in wine while his father's empire moves on without him.
Then General Vahran seizes the throne.
With assassins closing in and the Crescent Palace burning, Anatole escapes carrying little more than a lunar seal, the loyalty of his former captain Amir, and the final lessons of the mentor who sacrificed everything to keep him alive.
Flight soon becomes something larger.
Across deserts, dangerous seas, ruined fortresses, and divided kingdoms, Anatole discovers that surviving a fallen dynasty is easier than building something worthy of replacing it. Armies can defend walls. Fear can command obedience. But neither can create justice, loyalty, or a state capable of surviving the man who founded it.
With the sharp minded scholar Sahir at his side, Anatole begins forging a new order at Fortemord, one built on law, accountability, shared sacrifice, and the radical idea that even rulers must answer to the rules they create.
But enemies are already gathering. Assassins hunt him. Ancient powers stir beyond the borders. And a dangerous new doctrine has begun spreading through the cracks of the world he is trying to build.
The Moon Rising is an epic fantasy prequel about exile, redemption, political power, and the foundations of an empire whose consequences will echo for more than a thousand years.
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