In a kingdom tilting toward war, a prince who gave up power for peace returns to a world that no longer remembers how to hold either.
Aelric, monk of the Lightbringers, heir to the throne of Gallowmere, is called back from a life of wandering and healing to attend a royal wedding – his sister’s, to a foreign prince whose alliance may save the realm, or shatter it.
But in the shadow of celebration, something darker stirs: a series of mutilated children marked with symbols no one understands, whispers of a forgotten magic, and the first sparks of a war lit by ambition, not necessity.
As Aelric navigates court politics, ancient secrets, and the wounds of a broken boy, he must reckon with the cost of hope, the burden of legacy, and a question even the Lightbringers cannot answer:
What is mercy, when the world demands justice?
For fans of Le Guin, Piranesi, and The Name of the Wind, this is fantasy at its most human: lyrical, devastating, and radiant with hard-won grace. A pastoral, false history that will shatter your soul as it warms your heart.The End of the Wanderings is the first novel in a mammoth series, The Sevenfold Chains, that will trace the quiet rebellions and radiant tragedies of a kingdom, and an entire world on the brink. Where power, faith, and memory collide, and even the smallest kindness can alter the fate of empires.