The Final Strife

The Empire rules by blood
Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control.
Blue is the blood of the poor, of workers, of the resistance.
Clear is the blood of the servants, of the crushed, of the invisible.
Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would
spark a revolution that would free the Empire from the red-blooded
Embers’ tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her
family murdered before her eyes.
Anoor has been told she’s nothing, no one, a disappointment by the only
person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the Empire,
but when you’ve found the bottom, your only option is to rise.
Hassa moves through the world unseen by the Embers and blue-blooded
Dusters. As a clear-blooded Ghosting she knows what it means to be
invisible. But invisibility has its uses, it can hide the most dangerous of
secrets, secrets that can reignite a revolution.
As the Empire begins The Aktibar, a set of trials designed to find the next
ruling Wardens of the Empire, the stage is set for blood to flow, power to
shift and cities to burn.