Six months after the civil war, Cael visits his imprisoned enemy Kael—and receives a warning: something ancient stirs in the east. The Confederation's scouts discover the Scavenger Clans, a technologically superior civilization that sealed themselves away during the demon wars while everyone else died. Forced into uneasy alliance, both peoples awaken the Architect—a Progenitor AI bound with ten thousand sacrificed souls, corrupted by the same darkness that spawned the Wurm Lords.
Now Cael must lead united forces against an intelligence that sees humanity as contamination to be eliminated. But the Architect wasn't built to kill. It was built to optimize. And after millennia of madness, the screaming souls within its crystalline core have learned that silence requires extinction.
The series finale of The Ashen Kingdoms—where the cost of survival isn't measured in blood alone, but in what you're willing to sacrifice for people who were your enemies yesterday.
Genre: Science Fiction
Now Cael must lead united forces against an intelligence that sees humanity as contamination to be eliminated. But the Architect wasn't built to kill. It was built to optimize. And after millennia of madness, the screaming souls within its crystalline core have learned that silence requires extinction.
The series finale of The Ashen Kingdoms—where the cost of survival isn't measured in blood alone, but in what you're willing to sacrifice for people who were your enemies yesterday.
Genre: Science Fiction
Used availability for Lincoln Cole's Legacy of Iron