The Book of the Null · Book 1
The Sleep of Empires
- Published
- 16 September 2025
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9781645061137
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Sleep of Empires (16 September 2025, Pyr) opens The Book of the Null on the world of Eloran, where elves, human realms, and the kaul all vie for advantage. Latanna Forgrym escapes an arranged marriage only to stumble onto a lost crown that draws her toward suppressed history, while Vorykas, a kaul mercenary bound to that same crown, begins piecing together an erased past that powerful enemies are willing to kill to keep buried.
Its place in The Book of the Null
The Sleep of Empires is book 1 in the The Book of the Null series. See the full The Book of the Null reading order.
The Book of the Null is David Annandale's original epic-fantasy series, set on the world of Eloran -- a patchwork of imperious elven realms, fractious human nations, and the skeletal, feared kaul, each jockeying for advantage over the others. It opens with The Sleep of Empires : when Latanna Forgrym refuses the marriage her manipulative father arranges for her and instead weds a man she respects, a chance encounter with a pair of mercenaries leads her to a lost crown -- a relic of forces Eloran has spent…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781645061137
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781645061274