For twenty thousand years, the crowned House of Dehmohseni, its line of witch-kings and sorcerer-emperors, held dominion over the entire world. That dominion ended twenty-one years ago, when the last king was slain and the empire shattered.
The world rejoiced as the mad nephilim dynasty was cast down, its legacy buried beneath new borders and fledgling kingdoms. But on the night of the fall, unknown to most, a son of the slain king was smuggled from the City of Many Tongues by loyalists and hidden in a distant corner of the world.
Now twenty-one, Yvain the Younger has been raised in exile, taught to speak forgotten tongues, to conjure before he could walk, and to believe, without question, in his divine right to a throne that no longer exists.
This is the tale of his return, a journey across the broken realms of Malkuth, haunted by sorcerers, demon princes, eldritch gods, and the worst of men. As Yvain confronts the terrible weight of his bloodline, he must decide whether to inherit his family’s tyranny… or destroy everything.