A Harvest of Ash and Blood

What is the price of magic? Not the magic of tricks and illusions, but the kind that heats cities, powers armies, and transforms continents.

Magic that forges empires.The Brannic Empire owes its existence to this magic and for those in power, no price is too great.

Even when that price is their own children.For it is the ashes of those with magical abilities that the Church of Alchemy harvests to fuel this machine of empire.So the furnaces burn, and the empire grows.And they call it progress.Trying to escape a lifetime of regrets—and outrun his own demons—veteran soldier Lochled Thatcher embarks on the Fourth Crusade to Leftland,a country rich in magic.