ABOUT

The Nation of Vaifen is under attack.

The Ashen Reckoning, a terrorist organization hellbent on unraveling Vaifen and its ways, has unleashed a series of heinous and atrocious attacks all across the nation and on its capital, the crown city of Ternion.

Led by a man only known as ‘Dogma,’ they seek to ‘free’ Vaifen and its 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, others actively conspire from the shadows to bring an end to one of the last remaining nation-states in the planet from the inside out. The proud but ailing nation also 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 a shrewdness that only few can match, has catapulted his New Vaifen Front political party to unprecedented heights. Easton’s denouncement of Vaifen’s perceived stagnation, message of revolution, and the promise of an unprecedented change in 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 quelling the Ashen Reckoning’s bloodshed, and corruption, even possible collaboration from within, is an ever-growing concern for the Nation’s regent, King Sulwyn Starsong, who, despite his diminished reign, cannot sit idly and let the nation he swore to protect and guide further descend into 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 of some of the finest sons and daughters of Vaifen, the small Gestalt unit boasts bleeding edge technology unlike anything the nation has ever seen before. Highly advanced battle suits based on the designs of the now near extinct warrior-race, the Nasivern, stand as the cornerstone of their arsenal. To achieve their goals of securing peace for all of Vaifen, Gestalt is 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 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, the so-called “Heirs of Sin.”

Sword of Vaifen 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 foray 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.