ECHOES OF THE FORGOTTEN THRONE

He was born with nothing. The empire made sure of it. Kael Dawnveil was nineteen years old when he watched his father hang from the empire's gallows, framed for treason by the very men who feared him. As a Hollow, a man born without the Resonance that determines power and worth in the Empire of Solverath, Kael had no army, no title, no magic. Just a name nobody remembered and a rage he had nowhere to put. But something woke inside him that day. Something the empire had buried from history because the last time it appeared, it brought a dynasty to its knees. Now Kael is climbing. Through the gutters, through the academy, through the noble courts that condemned his father. His power grows with every enemy he faces. His mind is sharp, his patience longer than most men's lives. He is becoming exactly what the empire fears most. The problem is he knows it. Because the closer Kael gets to the men who destroyed his family, the more he has to become like them to reach them. Every compromise chips something away. Every victory costs someone he loves. And the throne he is fighting toward is starting to look less like justice and more like the same poison poured into a different cup. He swore he would never become the monster that made him. But monsters rarely see themselves coming.