In the cold subterranean silence of the Royal Catacombs, Prince Caelan remained kneeling before the basalt stele of King Valerius, his forehead resting against the carved stone, his broad shoulders shaking with deep, ragged sobs of generational grief. For three hundred years, he had honored the memory of Emperor Valerius as a wise, benevolent founding father whose divine laws were the bedrock of civilization. To discover that Valerius had poisoned…
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