City of Warriors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798234144782)

The Oracles, once the guiding power behind the Mycedarian Cradle and the Five Kingdoms, burned alive in their own sanctum. Temples crumbled. Kings fell. The great Arakan died in his bedchamber with a blade still warm in his chest. Of all the Oracles, only one walked out alive. Nazera fought to hold the future together, but when the Cradle needed her most, she disappeared, and with her, the hope of Mycedaria.

Twenty years later, far from the High Kingdom, a farmer's son named Adonis grows up in Polemistes, a nation forged by warriors. He refuses the shape the world has cast for him, driven by his ambition to become the first Xeros chosen in over thirty years. To earn it, he must survive the Arete Trials, a brutal contest where nobles born of the titan bloodline hold every advantage.

With his closest friends, Bodhi and Eoinë, Adonis steps onto a path that could lift his family from the outskirts forever. But as the trials unfold, forgotten truths surface. Ancient constructs, long dismissed as legend, stir awake. And the line between myth and memory dissolves.

What begins as a fight to overcome his station becomes something far larger, a collision of history, prophecy, and powers that threaten a second rupture. One that may decide whether the Five Kingdoms survive at all.