The Empress of Unspoken Things

Twenty years of silence. Five fragments of a dead language. One chance to end everything.

The Empress of Valdris has not spoken in twenty years. Her silence is not weakness - it is the most powerful political act in the empire's history. Every word she withholds is a refusal to be weaponized. Every decree she writes is a scalpel. She has been waiting, quietly and patiently, for the pieces of the Ashen Accord to find their way to her.

Now they have.

Rael was the Conclave's most trusted archivis...