Rise of the Crimson King

A crown was never the goal. Survival was.



Michael struggles to remember where he came from. In a crumbling, abandoned province at the edge of the Empire, he's just another orphan scraping by daily. No name, no family, no power. Nothing that matters.



Until the test.



Until the anomaly.



Until something ancient stirred



Now, the wrong people are watching, wary of a promise borne of sin.



Too much attention will cost his head, too little will get him discarded.



as he struggles to uncover secrets of his life and navigates the woes of power, he gets caught up in a thousand year conflict.



He doesn't want glory. He doesn't want a war. He just wants to protect the few scraps of light he has left



But fate doesn't care what he wants



And in the dark, something is waiting to crown him