7 parts Ongoing For two thousand years, the world has lived in the shadow of broken empires.
The mighty Eralian Republic has crumbled into dust. The once-glorious Athracian Empire rules the South in terror but bleeds from within. And in the far North, forgotten legends stir - the Seolite Custodians, who guard a crippled god, and Ilmaraa, the hidden inheritors of humanity's first empire.
General Marcius Varro has fought for too long. His company is starving, the rebels multiply like smoke, and the capital he serves is ruled by the corrupt Trusted Five. But when a letter arrives from the mysterious Emperor Cassander Veynar of Ilmaraa, promising not conquest but remembrance, Varro finds himself standing at the crossroads of history.
Allies and enemies converge at the ruined Brass Meridian: Athracian envoys with velvet smiles, zealot Custodians with their living god, Ilmaraan envoys carrying rivers written like words, and rebels desperate for bread. A single day's truce becomes the spark of a struggle that will decide whether humanity embraces tyranny, memory, or fire.
In a world scarred by plagues, rebellion, and immortal rulers who refuse to die, the last question remains:
When conquest ends... what will humanity choose to be?