A False Dawn

A war orphan builds a secret empire in the name of saving humanity. A scholar gets dragged from his library into a game he doesn't know he's playing. A dwarf engineer tries to build a future his father died to make possible. And somewhere in the south, a king who calls himself a god is waiting for all of them. Moria is a world still bleeding from the collapse of its greatest empire. Old wounds between humans, dwarves, elves, and orcs have never healed — they've only been buried under fragile agreements and mutual distrust. Now new powers are rising, alliances are being tested, and the men shaping the continent's future have plans they don't intend to share. Isaac Faemore wanted to understand magic. He's about to learn there are things that don't want to be understood.