300 years ago, a god was murdered.

Blue, once the deity's most faithful general, made immortal through her service, has wandered the fractured land ever since.

Her inability to die is a curse she strives to end.

Chance has her collide with Sarai, a guard captain who possesses an ancient memoir detailing the events of the god's death. If Blue can find the weapon used in that divine assassination, perhaps it can end her life, too.

Fuelled by a death drive developed over centuries, Blue seeks out the blade with Sarai at her side. Their hunt will take them across the blood-soaked extents of the broken empire, where the violently faithful battle for the right to name themselves the next God-Emperor.

But a blade that can kill one god can also make another, and Blue isn't the only one who desires that weapon.

The Imperium and the Drasken Empire have been tenuous neighbours for generations, but the unprovoked assassination of one of the Imperium's leading politicians tips them both into a devastating conflict.

A jaded warrior.

Endarion, a tortured veteran general, finds himself dragged out of self-imposed exile and given command of the Imperium's armies to wage a war he doesn't believe in. If he doesn't conquer Drasken, his vindictive ruler will destroy his entire family.

A hated turncoat.

Estrid, once Endarion's lover but now his greatest enemy, is tasked with defending Drasken against him and, if necessary, destroying him in the field.

A noblewoman in disguise.

Back in the Imperium's capital, Endarion's niece Sephara, posing as a bodyguard, hunts down the true assassin in the hopes of halting the war before it devours both nations. When she uncovers an immortal plot thousands of years in the making, she realises her family is at the centre of a supposedly extinct race's attempts to reclaim their fallen empire.

A young mage in hiding.

Across the continent, bastard-born Tali, Endarion's youngest daughter, awakens to a magic long thought eradicated. But her powers make her a target to powerful immortal factions; perhaps the same immortals her family now unwittingly fights against.