#1 – Interregnum
Twenty years of civil war have broken the Empire after the extinction of its ruling line. Provincial armies, warlords and surviving officials compete to restore order on their own terms, while ordinary communities are forced to choose between unstable protectors. A group of soldiers and exiles…
#2 – Ironroot
Two decades after the Interregnum, a veteran returns to an Empire that appears restored but still carries the scars of civil war. Old betrayals and unresolved crimes draw him into a private search for justice connected to powerful people who benefited from the earlier chaos. The…
#3 – Dark Empress by S. J. A. Turney (April 10,2014)
M’Dahz, the Empire’s southern bastion, faces a season of war, terror and internal division. The desert city depends on soldiers, merchants and local communities whose interests no longer align, while threats beyond the frontier exploit every weakness in its defences. A woman forced to navigate military…
#4 – Emperor’s Bane (Tales of the Empire)
On the borders of the Jin Empire, the nomadic Khmar raid too deeply and encounter the full power of the Jade Emperor. Tenzhin sees his father killed and is taken from the world of his tribe into a court whose sophistication conceals ritualised violence and constant…
#5 – Insurgency
Forty years after the Empire’s restoration, Emperor Kiva presides over an order that appears secure but depends on compromises made during earlier wars. A forbidden relationship and a desperate escape reveal provincial resentment that has survived beneath the language of unity. As fugitives cross borders and…
#6 – Invasion
At the Empire’s northern edge lies Alba, an island whose wet terrain and independent peoples defeated a major expedition twenty years earlier. A renewed invasion is planned with better intelligence and greater determination, but commanders still underestimate the landscape and the memory of communities that resisted…
#7 – Jade Empire
Aram of the scattered Inda reaches an eastern imperial world whose wealth and organisation exceed anything his people have known. The Jade Empire appears powerful, yet court rivalries and pressure on its frontiers have made rulers suspicious of outsiders and of one another. Aram’s arrival links…