ABOUT

Vaifen is under attack. Forces, both internal and external, actively conspire to bring an end to the peace of one of the last remaining nation-states in the planet Orbis, and to bring the proud nation to its knees.

The Ashen Reckoning, a terrorist organization hellbent on unraveling Vaifen and it’s ways, has unleashed a series of heinous and atrocious attacks all across the nation and its capital, the crown city of Ternion. Led by a man only known to the world as ‘Dogma,’ the Ashen Reckoning seeks to ‘free’ Vaifen’s people from what they vehemently profess is, the tyrannical rule of the Crown, the corruption of the Senate, and the blind indifference of the Tribunal.

In addition to the threat of the Ashen Reckoning, the Nation of Vaifen finds itself at the cusp of a political crisis that could very well shake down the foundations of its longstanding ways.

Senator Thomas Easton, armed with his silver tongue and political shrewdness, has catapulted the New Vaifen Front political party to unprecedented heights. Easton’s denouncement of Vaifen’s perceived stagnation and message of revolution and change of Vaifen’s way of governance has begun to resonate within the populace like never before.

Vaifen’s security forces have so far been astoundingly unsuccessful in putting an end to the Ashen Reckoning’s bloodshed, and corruption among these institutions is an ever-growing concern for the Nation’s regent, King Sulwyn Starsong, who cannot sit idly and let the nation he swore to protect and guide further descend chaos.

King Starsong has authorized the creation of Gestalt, a small elite group that will turn the tide against the Ashen Reckoning and protect Vaifen and its people from any other present and future threats, wherever they may come from.

Composed by the finest sons and daughters of Vaifen, the Gestalt unit boasts bleeding edge technology unlike anything the nation has ever seen before—including battle suits based on the designs of the now near exting warrior-race, the Nasivern, also known as the Heirs of Sin. Gestalt is also provided with exceptional operational liberties unlike that of the rest of the nation’s security apparatus.

Bastiel Isthal, a Nasivern orphan and the King’s protégé, dreams of one day becoming worthy of the heroic mantle of those that preceded him. He heeds the call to arms and duty conveyed by his regent and joins Gestalt as the fifth member of its strike team—donning the crimson red GT-BS105MC Nightingale battle suit, and wielding the fighting doctrine and legacy of his ancestors.

Sword of the Nation follows the journey and exploits of Bastiel Isthal and the Gestalt team, as they work together to put an end to the Ashen Reckoning and Dogma—all whilst Bastiel carves his own heroic path in a world that he may never be fully part of.

This book will be the first entry in this universe—the first step towards the completion of this Crimson Dream of mine. Sword will be the first of a trilogy, which, along with Sins, and Soul, will comprise the first arc of this saga.