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The Ashen Standard: A Prophecy of Shadows and Clarity
Paperback
FantasyMystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 4 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the soot-choked empire of Vhaloria, the Ashen Standard flies as a banner of unyielding purity. Under the First Voice Kaelor, the regime pursues the Luminant ideal: a perfect harmony where every shadow is measured, every deviation corrected, and every burden released.
Physician-Examiner Vaelor Iskrenn serves the cause with polite detachment in his sterile white-stone laboratory. Armed with prophetic callipers and vials of mist-taint, he unbinds the Obscured-displaced Virethi tribes whose very blood resists the empire's vision of clarity. To Iskrenn, the work is rational, even merciful. Yet ancient prophecies whisper a darker truth, and haunting visions drawn from forgotten gods reveal that the measurer may one day be measured.
As the Final Harmonised Chronicle rewrites history into flawless symmetry, survivor Eshai watches the world forget what was erased. Villages vanish from maps. Names are struck from ledgers. Mercy itself becomes a euphemism for oblivion.
In a land where clarity claims what compassion withholds, one man's quest for perfection threatens to unmake not only the mist-tainted, but the soul of the empire itself.
The Ashen Standard is a grimdark fantasy of bureaucratic horror, fractured faith, and the terrible price of perfect harmony. For readers of The Poppy War, Malazan Book of the Fallen, and The Traitor Baru Cormorant.
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