TO SLAY A GOD
When vengeance defies the gods. Even dharma must take sides.
Echoes of Destiny · Book One
A king who has run out of lawful moves. A strategist dismissed by every institution that formed her. A commander carrying a wound no one is meant to see. And a man who believes he is righteous — which makes him the most dangerous force in the known world.
To Slay a God is the story of what dharma demands when the gods are not watching — and what it costs those who answer.
In the kingdoms of Mund and Prakhand, power is not seized. It is inherited, consecrated, and slowly corrupted by the weight of what it asks its holders to become.
Shirpu, King of Mund, has always ruled within the lines. He is not a man of war. He is a man of order — of ritual, counsel, and measured breath. But the arrival of Rajisura of Prakhand, a man who wears righteousness like armor and uses it like a blade, has placed before him a choice that no ceremony can resolve.
Lyka, his sister and strategist, sees what others refuse to name. She has always seen clearly. The problem has always been that clarity in a woman is read as insolence. She will propose the unthinkable. And she will be the one who carries it.
Kashpu, his brother and commander of Mund, is the sword arm of a king who does not want to use it. His wound is private. His loyalty is total. The cost of both is accumulating.
Kaya, queen and primary counsel, holds the architecture of the court together through the sheer force of her political intelligence — and her four bangles, one always missing, a presence only she marks.
Rooted in Sanskrit aesthetic tradition and Hindu philosophical inheritance, To Slay a God asks the oldest of its world's questions: Does doing right restore you to who you were before you had to do it?
Character Card Copy Shirpu
King of Mund
A man of order confronting a moment that order cannot contain. He does not want to be the kind of king who does what he is about to do — which is precisely why it falls to him to do it.
Character Card Copy Kaya
Queen · Primary Counsel
She governs through intelligence, not authority. Four bangles on her wrist — one always missing — a count only she keeps.
Character Card Copy Kashpu
Prince and the Commander of Mund
His loyalty is a kind of architecture. It holds even when the weight placed upon it exceeds what the builder intended.
Character Card Copy Lyka
Princess and the Royal Strategist
His loyalty is a kind of architecture. It holds even when the weight placed upon it exceeds what the builder intended.