Though from Ruin to Ash
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Last published Sun, Jun 13, 2021
With the kingdom suffering from a hard year of drought Damian Storm and his half brother Caiden Lowell have been tasked with putting down the latest uprising. Tensions run high throughout the kingdom and mass rebellion lies restless on the horizon.
The king has called his high lords together for council, but when he is found murdered his children and the lords turn upon each other as the kingdom is torn asunder in the wake of this tragedy. As the battle lines are drawn, the king's children assemble their armies to take the crown for themselves.
His own father killed, Damian Storm renounces the claim the king's children have to rule and joins the war with the intent to put his brother Caiden on the throne instead, setting out to gather allies and an army of his own from those among the lords who dislike the current ruling family.
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