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Sylvanus: Swords and Sons
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Expected 9 Nov 26Prince Sylvanus Zulikaarme has spent years playing the dutiful son while quietly preparing for the day he may have to stand against his father. Then a letter arrives bearing the seal of a dead man.
Koen the Gray—his elder brother, lost for three years—is alive. Suddenly, the rebellion Sylvanus has been building toward no longer seems quite so impossible. If he can reach Koen, he may finally have a brother willing to stand beside him.
So Sylvanus leaves Runemaul in secret and rides north toward Blackdown. Across the empire his father forged, grievances that once reached him through whispers, councils, and distant reports become impossible to keep at a ruler’s distance. Old wounds remain beneath Vesper’s promised peace, and powers his new world failed to bury still linger in its forgotten places. The farther Sylvanus travels, the more the road tests everything he thought he understood about power, loyalty, and the difference between ruling men and leading them.
Somewhere in the Northlands waits a brother who has survived a journey of his own. Sylvanus rides north believing Koen may be the man who can turn defiance into rebellion. He does not yet know the road is making him into the brother Koen may need just as much.
Koen the Gray—his elder brother, lost for three years—is alive. Suddenly, the rebellion Sylvanus has been building toward no longer seems quite so impossible. If he can reach Koen, he may finally have a brother willing to stand beside him.
So Sylvanus leaves Runemaul in secret and rides north toward Blackdown. Across the empire his father forged, grievances that once reached him through whispers, councils, and distant reports become impossible to keep at a ruler’s distance. Old wounds remain beneath Vesper’s promised peace, and powers his new world failed to bury still linger in its forgotten places. The farther Sylvanus travels, the more the road tests everything he thought he understood about power, loyalty, and the difference between ruling men and leading them.
Somewhere in the Northlands waits a brother who has survived a journey of his own. Sylvanus rides north believing Koen may be the man who can turn defiance into rebellion. He does not yet know the road is making him into the brother Koen may need just as much.
566 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication November 9, 2026
About the author
Scott Austin Tirrell
29 books26 followersScott Austin Tirrell writes dark fantasy because apparently the real world doesn't contain enough dead people, ruined faiths, and gods with questionable motives.
Most of his stories take place in Lucardia, a world with a long memory and a rather serious problem with its dead. Its people have been taught many comforting things about history, religion, power, and what happens when the reaper’s sickle swings. Unfortunately, much of it is wrong.
Scott is less interested in heroes than in complicated people who stumble into mysteries they probably should have left alone—and then have to live with what they find.
When he isn’t writing, Scott wanders old cemeteries in search of character names and thinks about fictional people as though they have personally inconvenienced him.
He lives near Boston with his wife and maintains a healthy distrust of ravens.
Most of his stories take place in Lucardia, a world with a long memory and a rather serious problem with its dead. Its people have been taught many comforting things about history, religion, power, and what happens when the reaper’s sickle swings. Unfortunately, much of it is wrong.
Scott is less interested in heroes than in complicated people who stumble into mysteries they probably should have left alone—and then have to live with what they find.
When he isn’t writing, Scott wanders old cemeteries in search of character names and thinks about fictional people as though they have personally inconvenienced him.
He lives near Boston with his wife and maintains a healthy distrust of ravens.
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