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Baseborn: The Rise of Valdria
Paperback
Series: Heavenfall, Book 2
FantasyGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Tartary
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When the Iron Emperor dies, the world does not end.
It continues-by decree, by silence, by fear.
His corpse rots in secret while courtiers speak with his voice. Laws outlive their authors. Truth becomes treason. A child emperor takes the throne. A magistrate rules from the shadows. An empire built on order begins to consume itself.
Across this collapsing realm move unlikely figures: a peasant who asks the wrong question and becomes a symbol, a war-god emerging on blood and legend, and a pragmatic lord who treats imperial collapse like a logistical problem rise from mud.
BASEBORN is a ruthless, intellectually charged epic about power after belief-about what happens when law replaces morality, obedience replaces truth, and history belongs not to the victors, but to those who survive the purge. There are no heroes here. Only survivors, conspirators, and the dead-and the monuments built to erase them.
History is written by the victors. But the truth is forged in the shadows.
The first thing they do is take down the face. Before the body, before the sword-arm, before the inscription is chiseled away-they always remove the face. In a kingdom where yesterday's liberator is today's betrayer, survival depends on knowing which way the wind blows.
They call him Baseborn. They should have called him warned.
In a world governed by the rigid geometry of the Creedseat and the crushing weight of crowns, lineage is everything. To be baseborn is to be invisible-a spectator to the great turning of the age. But when the cycles of history begin to fracture, it is the invisible who see the cracks first.
From the gutter to the heavy silence of the Western Glebe, a new power is rising. It is a story of ambition that defies the stars, of a lamb spared to prove the majesty of the lion, and of the heavy price paid for a legacy that might be erased by the next sunrise.
Enter a world of dying empires and dangerous secrets. Buy Baseborn today and begin the journey into the Heavenfall series.
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