Throne of Broken Crowns

In the game of sovereignty, there are no clean hands.

The Aurelian Empire is a golden cage, and for the people of Oakhaven, the bars are finally breaking.

Lucivan, the reluctant third son of a falling house, never asked for a throne. But when a crooked silver circlet—hammered from a common dinner plate—is placed upon his head, he becomes the focal point of a revolution he isn't sure he can lead. He isn't a warrior; he is a man trying to keep a crumbling fortress from being swallowed by the very empire that built it.

In the dim halls of "The Shed," the war is fought not with swords, but with whispers and trade routes. Seraphina Vos, the Weaver, manages a web of spies that stretches into the heart of the Imperial capital, while General Evarre Vane stands as a silent, iron-clad sentinel against the approaching Sun-Lance legions.

But as the Empire's political machinery grinds closer, a terrifying variable enters the equation. To the south, in the Blackened Wastes, a dark alchemy is turning the dead into weapons. The "Flesh-Woven" are coming, and they do not care about borders or crowns.

Lucivan must now play a dangerous game: negotiate with a corrupt Empire that wants him dead, or side with a dark power that promises survival at the cost of his humanity.

History is written by the survivors. But in Oakhaven, survival has a price that no treasury can pay.