Her Sun-Shattered Tears

It has been generations since a magical cataclysm ravaged the world, turning a fertile planet into a feral wasteland. The sun, which once brought warmth and beckoned crops, now looms titanic and black, its dim crimson light bleeding through cracks in its blistered surface. Those who remain huddle together in city-states, each ruled by a beautiful and cruel Sorcerer-Queen who wields the peoples’ fe…