Ashen Dominion: The Sleepless Throne

Beneath mountains of ash and stone, an ancient throne never sleeps.

Ambrose - called Lord Shaper, The Black Immortal, and The Deathless Sovereign - once burned an age to the ground and remade the world in fire. That was centuries ago. Now he sits upon the Ashen Throne, a black-boned monarch wrapped in shadow and silence, ruling a perfectly ordered realm the living have chosen to forget.

In the Black Dominion, the dead march without rest, cities obey in fearful peace, and eight terrifying lieutenants - the Eight Shadows - carry out their master's will. Above, the surface kingdoms bleed and pray and redraw their borders over ancient scars, convinced the ashen lands on their maps are nothing but cursed, empty wasteland.

They call his realm abandoned.
They mark it as unclaimed.
They teach their children that the Ashen Lord is only a story.

When their scouts cross his forgotten borders, Lord Shaper finally looks up from his endless watch. He does not sleep. He does not forgive. And he remembers, dimly, how it felt to end a world once before.

This time, he will not be so merciful.