The Long Price Quartet

In the city-states of the Khaiem, poets maintain peace by magically binding abstract concepts into human form known as andat. As the industrialized Galt empire seeks to destroy this magic to pave the way for conquest, two men find their lives intertwined across decades of political intrigue and shifting power. The narrative examines the profound personal and societal costs of wielding absolute power and the consequences of choices made in youth.