"Kingdoms do not fall when enemies breach the gates; they fall when truth breaks the chains of silence."
The Northern Kingdom had known unrest before wars, betrayals, coups, the steady gnawing bite of assassins hiding in plain sight. But never had its foundations felt so unsettled as they have now. For the first time in generations, it was not an outside army shaking the crown. It was the secrets of the kingdom itself, clawing their way out from stone and shadow.
