The Daughter Of Veyria IV: Son Standard

The Son of the Standard - SummaryIn an empire built on order, banners matter more than blood.Raised in the long shadow of conquest, a young commander inherits not just a war standard-but the legacy of a system that mistakes efficiency for justice and silence for peace. As Veyria expands through certainty and steel, he is drawn into the machinery of power: its ceremonies, its victories, and its quiet erasures.Between the imperial capital of Lume, the industrial might of Ashen, and the ever-watchful rival empire across the sea, alliances fracture and loyalties are tested. What begins as duty becomes doubt. What feels like protection reveals itself as control.The Son of the Standard is a meditation on authority, inheritance, and the cost of obedience-an intimate political fantasy about how empires are sustained not only by armies, but by the people who decide, one moment at a time, whether to carry the banner forward.It is not a story about conquest. It is a story about what remains when certainty finally breaks.

Pagina's: 77, Paperback, Independently published