Nicholas Taylor

Ashes fall like snow. The crumbled walls of fortresses rise like tombstones, unable to protect the slain. The war that scorched the frontier now spreads like a storm across the heartlands.

Lines once drawn in blood begin to blur — between conqueror and protector, justice and revenge, duty and defiance. In the silence between battles, some seek shelter. Others, absolution. But the fires of empire burn on, consuming not just cities, but the very truths people once held sacred.

And across the land, those who wield the power to shape the world must ask: What is worth preserving… and what must be turned to cinders?