Of Empires and Dust
core novel 2025 The Bound and the Broken
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.73 (6,945 ratings, collected 2026-08-24) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781739620974 |
Synopsis
The penultimate novel in The Bound and the Broken series picks up directly after the devastating Battle of Aravell, as the world is thrown into chaos with the rising of the Blood Moon, an ominous phenomenon tied to the deepening conflict. Calen Bryer's struggle with the aftermath of the battle and its cost to those around him continues, while Kallinvar and the Knights of Achyron fight to hold back an encroaching darkness threatening to overwhelm what remains of the resistance. As the empire's campaign and the rising Blood Moon compound the pressure on every surviving faction, the characters introduced across the earlier books converge toward the war's climactic stage, each forced to reckon with how much the Battle of Aravell has already cost them.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Bound and the Broken
- Series: The Bound and the Broken core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ryan Cahill
Notes
- From the series record (The Bound and the Broken): Self-published epic fantasy main sequence, planned for 5 novels. The fifth and concluding volume, Of Gods and Ashes, is announced for 2028 per the author's own 2025 year-end update and is correctly excluded as unpublished. Several companion novellas (The Fall, The Exile, The Ice, and others) exist in the same continuity but were not catalogued.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Bound and the Broken: position 4 of 4: previous Of War and Ruin (2023)
Sources
- https://www.ryancahillauthor.com/post/chronicles-of-cahill-2025
- https://www.ryancahillauthor.com/ofempiresanddust
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