Vanity's Whim

Faced with death he accepts a deal. Haunted by his choices he strives for vengeance. The price of his newfound powers is another's death. The death of a thousand-year-old prophecy. This is the story of Asher. The son of a king and the apprentice of a forgotten shadow. From a sheltered child to an assassin navigating the world at the epoch of magic and machinery.