In the highest peaks of the world, the scribe Kaelen lives a life of quiet solitude, charting the slow, agonizing death of a fractured kingdom. His sanctuary is a world of ink and parchment, a refuge from the brutal wars that stole his family. But beyond the Citadel's walls, the age of men is bleeding out under the relentless advance of the Vorlag Dominion, and the histories Kaelen so carefully preserves may soon have no one left to read them.
His peace is shattered by the arrival of Elara, a mysterious warrior bearing a secret written in his very blood: Kaelen is the last descendant of a line of cartographers tasked with guarding the location of a myth-the Throne of the Black Dragon. This is no holy relic. It is a cursed seat of immense power, forged from the bones of the last great dragon, and it is the world's last, desperate hope for a ruler strong enough to unite the kingdoms against the coming darkness.
The path to the Throne is not a physical road; it is a trial of the soul, a secret magical passage that preys on fear and devours the unworthy. Forced to trade his quill for a sword he barely knows how to hold, Kaelen must confront forbidden magic, monstrous guardians, and a ruthless Vorlag general who hunts for the same ancient power. As the journey awakens a strange and terrifying new sense within him, the reluctant scribe discovers that the greatest threat may not be the armies marching on the horizon, but the corrupting whispers of the Dragon promising him the power to save everyone he loves.