The cost of control
Kingdoms built on conquest leave their mark on rulers and those they rule. The struggle for freedom runs through the world they create.
An epic fantasy series by Rachel Delphine
The Ascendent
Chronicles
Dangerous magic. Divided kingdoms.
Ambitions that reach beyond the mortal world.
Enter a world where power shapes lives, freedom carries a cost, and a name can be both an inheritance and a burden.
FIND YOUR FIRST BOOK ↓Beyond the throne
A world of power.
A struggle for freedom.
Mountain kingdoms, Amazon warriors, and unlikely adventurers share a world marked by conquest, enslavement, and the pursuit of power. Beyond its mortal conflicts, demonic powers pursue ambitions of their own.
The Ascendent Chronicles brings political intrigue and dangerous magic together with questions of identity, loyalty, and what it means to claim a life of your own.
The journey begins with The Weight of a Name: a fallen royal heir, a wizard seeking godhood, and a conspiracy reaching beyond the mortal planes.
At the heart of the stories
What power leaves behind.
The weight we carry
Names, loyalties, and inherited power shape a life. What remains when the things that once defined it are called into question?
Beyond mortal limits
Ancient rituals and demonic intrigue draw mortal lives into schemes whose reach extends far beyond a single kingdom.
Your journey starts here
Reading order
01 · Book One
The Weight of a Name
One destiny has been shattered.
Another is being forged.
Prince Wulfe’s downfall and the wizard Sa’Tom’s pursuit of godhood set the opening story in motion. An unlikely band of adventurers becomes entangled in a conspiracy reaching beyond the mortal world.
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