Aetherborn (Rewritten)

A dark fantasy novel of politics, war, and magic.

War is the only constant. Ashkan was born a bastard, raised as a tool, and condemned as a scapegoat. Betrayed by blood and hunted by crowns, he survives by turning trauma into strategy and mercy into weakness. What begins as a political execution becomes a continental rupture—where every alliance has a price, every victory demands a corpse, and magic only makes monsters of men.