Status: Writing
Sylvanus is a dark fantasy novel set in the world of Lucardia and a continuation of Koen’s storyline, told through the eyes of his younger brother.
Sylvanus rules Westgate from Runemaul, the ancient seat of his mother’s Anworth line, far from the center of his father’s power. But no distance is enough to escape the shadow of Emperor Vesper the Uniter, the single conqueror who forged the empire and now seems to be leading it into an increasingly darker age.
When word arrives that Koen—Vesper’s favored son and Sylvanus’s elder brother—has returned after a three-year disappearance, the news shakes the empire. Believed dead, Koen’s return feels almost impossible. For Sylvanus, it stirs something he has not allowed himself to feel in years: hope.
Hope that his brother has come back to stand against the growing darkness of their father’s rule. Hope that the bond between them might still endure. Hope that together they might yet confront the man who shaped their world through conquest, blood, and will.
Set against the weight of empire, family legacy, and gathering ruin, Sylvanus is a story of brotherhood, inheritance, and the cost of resisting a father who was once hailed as a unifier and now looms as something far more dangerous.
8/9/25- New story begins! 1,885 words
8/12/25- 8,232 words, moving along
8/20/25- 13,093 words. Broke 10k mark
9/5/25- Rewrote beginning. 24,763 words
9/29/25- 28,378 words. Koen is releasing soon!
10/1/25- Pause. Promoting Koen.
4/18/26- After focusing on Jezelle: Thief of Forks and a few other projects, returning to this book. 34,368 words.
