Apprentice to the world's deadlist assasin, Kymbuli's story is told in The Fall of Rienbect.
The novel is a historical look at the factors that led to the fall of the Rein Empire presented through a series of missives. The setting is noir fantasy with high magic, intense political intrigue and a realistic portrayal of wartime violence. Keegan Volx, an imp archmage, has created this text for his class at the Arcane Academy in Rienbect. Keegan narrates between missives and uses magical rituals as well as demon summoning to give his readers a voyeuristic perspective of the empire’s fall. Love, sex, murder, and political corruption are central themes in a game of espionage that leaves a city in chaos and an empire in civil war. The novel has a dark side similar to Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself as well as an incredibly rich anthropology similar to Steven Erickson’s Gardens of The Moon.
