The Broken Compact

The empire doesn't need armies. It sends letters.
When Aldric Vane, keeper of Calundra's ledgers, begins noticing what the numbers are actually saying, he starts a second book. He calls it the Ledger of Griefs. Thirty-seven entries. Each one reasonable. Together, a verdict.
Seven small kingdoms. One slow pressure. And a question that won't wait much longer: do we trust each other enough to act?
Then there is Brother Eadric - grey-robed, orderless, impossible to place. He asks what no one else dares ask and is gone by morning. The archive has his death record. It is dated two hundred years ago. He has not explained this.
The Broken Compact is the story the medieval world didn't know it was living in - and that the modern world will find uncomfortably familiar.
Written in the shadow of those who faced the same questions without a sword and changed everything anyway.
Some of them you will recognise.

Includes a complete map of the Threshold Realms, a reader's guide, and the full Ledger of Griefs - all thirty-seven instruments, with Vane's marginal notes.