Ten Books • Two Complete Epic Fantasy Series
A condemned soul. Four immortal kings. One law of magic powerful enough to break the world—or set it free.
Two complete five-book epic fantasy series set in Veyra — ten books in all.
Ten books • Two complete series
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The Saga
Lucian Vale died wealthy, powerful, and unloved. Reborn as Eiran, an orphan in the frozen village of Hollowmere, he is forced to live among the people his former self would never have noticed. In Veyra, four immortal kings rule through crowns that feed on memory, suffering, strength, and choice. Eiran remembers another world—and begins imagining what magic could become if it belonged to everyone.
The Crownless Age is an adult first-person fantasy saga about power, accountability, found family, and the dangerous freedom to choose an imperfect life.
The Origin Series
Long before Eiran woke in the snow of Hollowmere, four mortals were given gifts by the living heart of Veyra—and chose, one by one, to become kings. This is how the crowns were made.
BOOK ONE
“Strength that saves a city can also crown it in chains.”
Garran Blackiron is a mountain engineer whose gift for bearing impossible loads saves thousands when Dorran's pass begins to collapse. Each rescue teaches him that only command can keep the world from caving in—until strength itself becomes a crown no one can refuse.
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BOOK TWO
“Mercy measured in borrowed years is mercy with a ledger.”
Solivar is a gifted healer who can transfer years, wounds, and vitality between bodies. Desperate to save every life brought before him, he turns voluntary mercy into a system that decides whose years may be borrowed—and whose must be spent.
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BOOK THREE
“A memory kept forever is a truth no one may forget—or escape.”
Morcant, born Caro Nen, is a keeper of names and memories who believes a perfect record can prevent war. As his archive becomes the law of identity, preserving the truth quietly becomes ownership of the people who remember it.
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BOOK FOUR
“Grief charts a course where no one else may choose.”
Thalen Vey is a navigator who sees branching futures and safe routes through impossible seas. Grief convinces him that foresight gives him the right to choose a course for everyone else—whether they would choose it or not.
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BOOK FIVE
“A gift returned freely is still a gift. A gift demanded is a throne.”
Avarra is the living heart of Veyra, who grants four friends temporary gifts under a covenant of return. When rescue hardens into empire, her refusal to rule becomes the final obstacle standing between the world and its first crowns.
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Where To Start
Ten books, two complete five-book series, and two honest ways to read them. Neither order is wrong — they're simply different stories about the same crowns.
Recommended first read
The crowns, from their making
A note on spoilers: Publication order preserves every mystery the original saga was built to protect. Chronological order reveals how the crowns were created first, before Eiran ever opens his eyes in Hollowmere — a different, still spoiler-free experience, but one that changes what you already know going in.
The Books
BOOK ONE
“A second life. A first act of mercy.”
Reborn as an orphan in a starving northern village, Eiran discovers that every spell feeds the crowns keeping ordinary people weak. To survive, he must turn forbidden knowledge into a new law of magic—and become someone worthy of freedom.
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BOOK TWO
“Crowns can be broken. What follows may be more dangerous.”
Freedom has broken its first chain. In Greyhaven's furnaces, children feed the engines of the Iron Crown and rebellion carries a human cost. Eiran must prove that power freely shared can do what kings' chains never could.
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BOOK THREE
“When memory becomes law, identity becomes rebellion.”
In Istren, the Pale Crown rules through stolen memory, erased names, and histories rewritten by decree. To free the living and the dead, Eiran must confront the parents who made him—and the ruthless man he once was.
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BOOK FOUR
“Every miracle has a price. His kingdom makes someone else pay.”
King Solivar can mend shattered bones, end plague, and call the dead home. His miracles are paid for elsewhere. When Lysa's life hangs in the balance, Eiran must decide whether imperfect freedom is worth the pain it cannot prevent.
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BOOK FIVE
“Every choice saves a life. Every choice buries another.”
Thalen has gathered every life Veyra might have lived and drowned the world beneath them. Every door offers Eiran a better existence. To save the present, he must decide whether one flawed life is worth the countless perfect lives it denies.
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Five books · Five broken crowns
I
A cruel man dies, and an orphan opens his eyes in the snow of Hollowmere.
II
In Greyhaven's furnaces, shared power breaks the first chain of the Iron Crown.
III
In Istren, stolen names become a weapon turned against the Pale Crown.
IV
In Anvar's borrowed light, love is weighed against miracles someone else must pay for.
V
On the Western Sea, one imperfect life is chosen over every perfect lie.
The World
Strength forged into iron and industry.
Memory preserved until it becomes a prison.
Healing light whose cost is paid in hidden lives.
Possibility without end, and therefore without choice.
“Magic grows through relationship. Crowns turn relationship into ownership.”
The Characters
The Crownless Age
Reborn with the knowledge of a cruel former life, gifted in magic, and determined to make power answerable.
Strategist, survivor, and the first person to insist that love must never become ownership.
A black-feathered horned beast built to carry a god's memory across centuries — old enough to remember when the first crowns were only promises, and still learning to name a life of his own.
Archivist of the inconvenient truth, whose ledgers reach back to the age before the crowns; no account of Eiran's world is complete until the forgotten era that made it can answer for it.
Before the Crowns
The four who were given gifts, and the one who gave them.
The Iron King
A mountain engineer who turned the weight of a collapsing world onto his own shoulders at Dorran — and never found a way to set it back down.
The Radiant King
A healer who could move years, wounds, and vitality between bodies, until mercy by his hand became a system that decided whose years could be borrowed.
The Pale King
A keeper of names and memories who believed a perfect record could prevent war — until preserving the truth quietly became owning the people who remembered it.
The Drowned King
A navigator who read branching futures in the waves, and let grief convince him that foresight gave him the right to choose a course for everyone else.
The Living Heart of Veyra
The source of every gift the first four kings carried — offered freely under a covenant of return, and refused, to the end, as a throne.
“No one becomes good by being given another life. You become good by deciding what the life in front of you requires.”
Freedom is not the absence of chains; it is the burden of deciding without them.
Every act of power lands somewhere, and someone has to live where it lands.
What a person is owed begins with what the world agrees to remember.
Kindness is not weakness; it is the one law no crown has ever managed to tax.
The Author
Justin Pulliam is the author of two complete five-volume epic fantasy series set in Veyra — The Crownless Age and Before the Crowns — ten books in all about power, responsibility, and the ordinary people history tries to erase. His work combines immersive worlds, morally complex magic, and character-driven stakes.
Questions
Yes. Both five-book series are complete — The Crownless Age and Before the Crowns — ten finished books in all, with no cliffhangers waiting on a future volume.
There are two honest ways to read all ten books. Neither is wrong.
Publication order
Chronological order
Publication order preserves the mysteries of the original saga; chronological order reveals how the crowns were made first. See "Choose Your Reading Path" above for a longer note on spoilers.
Adult epic fantasy with isekai elements, political conflict, magical beasts, found family, and a first-person narrator.
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