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Chronicles of Die Herrschast: Book 1: When Power Lacks Restraint
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Series: Chronicles of Die Herrschast, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798247049203
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 2 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 2 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What kind of man is created when a child is taught that power is lawful as long as no one objects?
Shon DieHerrschast is six years old when he watches his uncle kill his father.
There is no investigation. No demand for justice.
The succession was lawful.
In DieHerrschast, leadership is proven through survival, silence confirms legitimacy, and order matters more than the people required to preserve it.
Shon grows within that system through assassin training, military discipline, and political intrigue. But he is not shaped alone.
Kael Vorrin becomes the weapon no one sees coming. Tharion Vel'Syrr learns that knowledge can be dangerous when a system decides what people are permitted to know. Seris Valein discovers that a carefully placed word can accomplish what violence cannot.
Shon learns from them all.
Then comes Frostmark.
Twenty-one days. One hundred miles. No resupply. No extraction. No allowance for pain, cold, injury, or failure.
Shon survives.
With Kael, Seris, and Tharion beside him, Shon enters Endstate, a unit created to intervene when ordinary authority can no longer move.
But beyond their borders, Wolfsmark is moving too.
Not with armies.
Not yet.
A neighboring power has discovered that the best way to defeat a system built on restraint may be to force it into a situation where every possible response carries a cost.
Betrayal is coming. Political intrigue is becoming open war.
Shon has spent his life learning how power works.
Now he must discover what happens when the rules that created him are no longer enough to protect the world around him.
This is where the dark epic fantasy story of Shon DieHerrschast begins.
Kael Vorrin becomes the weapon no one sees coming. Tharion Vel'Syrr learns that knowledge can be dangerous when a system decides what people are permitted to know. Seris Valein discovers that a carefully placed word can accomplish what violence cannot.
Shon learns from them all.
Then comes Frostmark.
Twenty-one days. One hundred miles. No resupply. No extraction. No allowance for pain, cold, injury, or failure.
Shon survives.
With Kael, Seris, and Tharion beside him, Shon enters Endstate, a unit created to intervene when ordinary authority can no longer move.
But beyond their borders, Wolfsmark is moving too.
Not with armies.
Not yet.
A neighboring power has discovered that the best way to defeat a system built on restraint may be to force it into a situation where every possible response carries a cost.
Betrayal is coming. Political intrigue is becoming open war.
Shon has spent his life learning how power works.
Now he must discover what happens when the rules that created him are no longer enough to protect the world around him.
This is where the dark epic fantasy story of Shon DieHerrschast begins.
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