Silver Crown and Thorns

Snow and frost never melt in the Northern Frontier, and the Raven Duke’s house has long since lost its former glory.

Eric Van Norsen, the family’s lowliest bastard, scrapes by in the cold wind of a neglected courtyard. He endures the nobles’ scorn and oppression, bears a deliberately buried frozen bloodline, and lives under the Church’s watchful eye and the predations of powerful ministers.

A sealed will and a silver thorn ring unexpectedly awaken the family’s ancient inheritance. He is no lowborn bastard, but the true heir of the Raven bloodline, with divine blood of ice and shadow sleeping within him, and a legacy of knightly honor and magical secrets long forgotten by the world in his hands.

From a boy in a cold courtyard to a lord of the Northern Frontier, from minor disputes over his lands to the imperial court, he gathers old comrades, rebuilds the knights, awakens his magic, forges alliances with elves and dwarves, defies the Church, quells rebellions, and hatches dragons. In an age of royal power struggles, noble-house rivalries, Church domination, and encroaching foreign races, he makes a path of thorns and climbs on steps of blood toward the summit of power.

When rifts in the void tear open the heavens and ancient shadows return to the world, he grows from a local noble into the sovereign who rules all races, ultimately ascending the Throne of Chaos and wielding the power of creation.

Once a fallen bastard, now crowned in silver.

In the name of nobility, he guards his lands.

With the strength of his bloodline, he sets the order of all realms.

Thorns cover his path, but he becomes a legend.