beyondkhaos
In a fallen kingdom where grain is scarce, coin is broken, and the throne is nothing but a symbol, power belongs to those who know how the world truly works.
Lucen Vale is nobody. A quiet clerk buried in records no one reads. While warlords raise armies and nobles scheme for crowns, Lucen studies something far more dangerous - systems.
Taxes. Laws. Trade. Fear.
As rival rulers clash with steel, wealth, shadow, charm, and justice, Lucen begins to rebuild the kingdom from the inside, one invisible move at a time.
He does not seek the throne.
He intends to make it irrelevant.
Steel and Ledgers is a dark, strategic fantasy about rebuilding a broken world through intellect, manipulation, and the quiet machinery of power.