Nascent Shadows

Summary

You are the fifth heir of House Castro, the ruling family of Astara, a kingdom deep in the northlands. Blessed -- or cursed, some may say -- with the gift of Divination since birth, you felt trapped in a marriage of convenience, with children you did not feel prepared to raise, and was in self-exile, until tragedy struck.

Living in the countryside with your wife and your twin children was halcyon. The days were idyllic, purposeless, stagnant at times.

Everything changes, however, when you dream of your older siblings, Crown Prince Alaric and Second Princess Filipa, being murdered in the dead of the night by an assassin they seem to know very well.

You shrug it off as a terrible nightmare, but then a message arrives for you revealing the truth: your siblings were murdered while you slept, and your dream was a bad omen, a warning, a premonition.

Back in the Capital for their funerals, suddenly you are thrust head first into the unraveling of a conspiracy greater than you: now, you must deal with the aftermath of a rumour that took root inside the Capital, the people who demand your head for treason, a bid for the throne, and an odyssey that takes you to forbidden lands outside of Astara, all to clear your name and find the assassin who ended your siblings's lives, before they find you.

The Blue Blood Assassin is closer than you think... Will you manage to uncover their identity before they make another victim out of your remaining siblings, or worse, before their next target is you?