The land of Calamere has lost its ruler. Torn apart by war and hatred, the Old Magic begins to fade away, and the Lineage of the Goddess abandons the world to torment and death.

But there is a prophecy. From the land of Calamere, the One Sovereign will arise, conquering the darkness and bringing salvation to all.

It was this ancient promise that led Oliver to join the Crownseekers, an order devoted to finding the One Sovereign. But when he realizes that his idolized order is not at all what he thought it would be, he is faced with the most difficult choice of his life.

Does he do his duty and kill the love of his life before she can become the Tyrant whom all Crownseekers fear? Or does he believe that she is the One Sovereign that all of Calamere has been waiting for? Torn between honor and prophecy, Oliver must sacrifice everything to bring peace to the land.

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Crown Seeker

Oliver recoiled. He could not help himself. “That’s impossible,” he said. 


Zarine sat back upon her haunches again, or at least appeared to, as she had no lower half to speak of. The tail of mist emanating from where her legs ought to be was even more disconcerting to look at without the rest of the fog around it. 


“Why?” she asked. “What’s so impossible about it?” 


“Because...” Oliver put his head in his hands for a moment, almost succumbing to a sudden wave of dizziness. It was too much to take in.


Words half-remembered suddenly drifted to him out of the recesses of his memory. "'And lo,'" he recited before he knew what he was doing, “‘the servants of the Apostle, the Demons, were bound to the darkest layer of the Pits, to writhe beneath the weight of darkness, forever banished from the light.’” 


“That smacks of gospel,” Zarine said, wrinkling her nose. “I suppose some human prophet or another cooked that up?” 


Chapter 40: Shock