“The Emperor’s Throne” is a science-fiction novel by Alexander Mazin, the second book of the “Fargal. The World of Asshur” cycle, in the genres of battle fantasy and heroic fantasy. He became ruler not by birthright, but by the right of the sword, and for many years he ruled over the strongest of the Four Empires, crushing both external and internal enemies. But then the day came when a fourteen-year-old boy from a mountain warrior clan arrived at his capital—come to seize the Emperor’s Throne.