You will rule to see everything precious destroyed and every hope ruined. You will rule Athadia, and the world will die in anguish. The ambitious sons of a dead monarch fulfill an ancient prophecy--their battle for a bloody throne plunges the empire into a revolution. Like jackals, the nations around them seek to lure the greedy princes into further traps. One king offers his beautiful daughter as a prize. Another wishes only to fulfill his own destiny of endless war. And so an ancient world of empire and power--the First World--begins to collapse.<br><p><br>As the thrones fall and the battles rage, a tragic young priest becomes a force for evil more powerful than any empire or army. The world is at war. The West is dying. More blood will flow, and more kings will dies....<br></p><p><br>The first riveting novel in the great fantasy trilogy, The Fall of the First World, now available again for the first time in thirty years!</p>