The gathering Dawn

The king has gone mad once revered as a hero who led humanity to victory, the king of Aria has become a tyrant feared by his own people. His kingdom lie drenched in blood, his castle has become a place of unspeakable horrors, and those who once served him now exist as twisted remnants of the lives they once lived. now, his daughter has returned to end his reign. Princess Celeste has spent years preparing for this moment. Alongside the enigmatic sorceress Vivian and the battle–worn Knight Nazak, she leads a rebellion into the heart of the King's domain, determined to put an end to her father's madness. But the deeper they venture into the ruined castle, the more unsettling the truth becomes. The king is not simply mad. He believes he is saving the world. And behind his madness lies a power unlike anything Celeste has ever encountered before, a Mantle capable of twisting reality itself. As daughter and father finally stand against one another, Celeste must confront a question far more terrifying than whether she can defeat him. What if the monster she came to kill still loves her? And what if, behind all the blood and madness, her father knows something about the fate of the world that she does not?