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Thrones Carved in Rot and Time: Book II of The Ashfall Requiem Trilogy (The Crystal Fox Saga)
Paperback
Series: The Ashfall Requiem Trilogy, Book 2
Publisher: Crystal Fox Press
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 696
Weight: 2.02
Height: 1.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world was broken before Kaelen ever touched the shards.
After the devastating trials of the first war, Kaelen and his companions carry three fragments of the shattered Eclipsera Stone-and the wounds earned in taking them. But victory has not healed the world. It has only revealed how deep the fracture runs.
Beyond the Shattered Steppe lies a series of realms warped by the remaining Dragon Generals, each one ruling over a broken law of existence. In the Verdant Labyrinth, life itself has turned malignant, and Lysera must confront the terrifying truth that healing and violation may speak the same language when power is forced too far. In the Clockspire, time loops, splinters, and reopens old wounds, demanding a sacrifice measured not in blood alone, but in stolen years. In the Skyvault Archipelago, gravity has become empire, and the Celestial Tyrant has written hierarchy into the bones of the heavens.
With every Dragon slain, another shard is reclaimed.
And with every shard reclaimed, the world grows less stable.
Forests recoil. Cities unravel. Seas rise without storm. Villages vanish from their own roads. Ordinary people begin to whisper of the fox-burned boy and his ruin-marked companions-not as saviors, but as omens. Wherever they go, catastrophe follows. Worse still, Kaelen himself is changing. Six shards now press against his soul, and the Fox Flame within him no longer behaves like ordinary fire. It braces, binds, shields, and locks reality itself-but each use brings him closer to becoming something no mortal body was meant to contain.
The fellowship, once forged by survival, begins to crack beneath the cost of continuing. Lysera is haunted by what her mercy has become. Ravyn carries years stolen from him by time itself. Darek's fear drives him to a betrayal that cannot be easily mended. Kaelorin's relentless understanding threatens to consume what remains of his humanity. And Kaelen must lead them onward while knowing that the road behind them is littered not only with enemies, but with consequences.
At the edge of the silent north waits the final Dragon General before the road turns toward Avarith and the Obsidian Spire. His realm is not merely winter. It is stillness enthroned: snow that does not fall, fire that forgets to burn, sound swallowed before it can become speech, and a white horizon where warmth itself goes to die.
To finish what they began, the company must enter a land that does not want to kill them.
It wants them to stop.
Dark, atmospheric, and morally charged, Thrones Carved in Rot and Time is the second volume of The Ashfall Requiem Trilogy: an epic fantasy of shattered gods, corrupted realms, impossible sacrifice, and the terrible cost of saving a world that may no longer recognize its saviors.
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