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The empire's ruin / Brian Staveley

In the first instalment of the Ashes of the Unhewn Throne trilogy, an elite soldier seeks to restore the dwindling war hawk cavalry. Meanwhile, a former monk attempts to reactivate the empire's failing transport gates as an ancient malevolence stirs.
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