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“You can bring back everyone you’ve lost. It will only cost your sanity.”

The king is dead, murdered by an interloper from the future—a manic copy of his own son, hellbent on forcibly reversing a disastrous timeline. The true Damian Roswald—a hedonistic crown prince bereft of magical talent—finds his comfortable life upended by his father’s murder and assassins from his own future.

“There are none left who can judge us, so we must be our own executioner. That is the cursed fate of those few named Damian Roswald.” 

With politicians plotting his demise, his royal cousins scheming for the empty throne, and warring churches tearing the grieving city apart, Damian must accept the tragedy of his countless futures—or else, find himself doomed to repeat them. But can a mere mortal decide their own fate in a world governed by almighty angels? 

“Find me, Damian Roswald. And I’ll tell you why the stars fell.”

For three centuries, even the wisest men have accepted that the night sky was once populated by ‘stars’—until a terrible calamity plunged mankind into a Dark Age. From the darkness, the Roswalds rose to power, but few know that the first crown was forged with the blood of a slaughtered god…

Damian must endure countless tragedies and the consequences of his own future actions to reach the peace he desires—but could the true threat be hiding not in his future, but in his own distant past?

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A Thread of Broken Fate

Ocean waves smashed into the cliff face with a sonorous roar.

Pieces of shale tumbled into the frothing tides, while towering stacks of rock rose out of the sea like hungry teeth. The ocean groaned, a primal maw that threatened to eat away at the foundation supporting the chapel sitting atop the cliff-face. One day, eventually, earth and rock would finally decay under the inevitable pressure of time, and the centuries-old church would fall into the ocean below to be utterly consumed by the ravages of nature.

Cardinal watched the ocean for a long while, the bitter winds whipping at his long coat. Seabirds screeched as they flapped high on the breeze, swooping down into the waters to snatch up fish. Small nests clung to the cliff, where infant birds squawked for food.

lament of a songbird (1).