Barony

Baronet Renold, a retired soldier in an era of open war, has spent years shaping the province of Wildemere into a domain he can call his own. Having purchased both land and title, he turns his ambition toward something far more difficult than conquest—unifying a fractured barony held together by custom, pride, and reluctant coexistence. As diplomacy falters and tensions increase, Renold is forced to confront the unsavory truth that order is rarely achieved without cost, and maintaining peace can just as easily hollow out the land it claims to protect. Encircled by pressure on all sides, Renold finds his authority tested not only by rival lords to the north and west, but by a neighboring barony to the east consumed by its own feudal conflicts—conflicts that threaten to spill across borders at any moment. As Wildemere edges closer to being dragged into war, Renold must navigate a world where alliances shift and where the cost of unity may be measured by what is lost not gained.