The change of ruler of the Human Empire came suddenly. Karlit II, the predecessor of Emperor Eontei, was still in his prime when an unknown fever carried him to his grave within a matter of days. What happened to the mightiest of kings? Did the young but already sharp and ambitious Viscount Egmonter have a hand in it? And are Yannem, king of the Mountain Kingdom, and his brother Brice β who seems to know far too much about dark magic β entangled in this intrigue?
Sometimes the fates of great empires and their rulers are decided in the most obscure backwaters of those empires.