BRONZE & BLOOD
In a bronze-and-iron-age world dominated by the hyper-rational, cold-calculating Assyrian Empire, warfare is treated as a flawless mathematical model of resource hoarding, fortification, and mass slaughter.
Enter Zakir, a brilliant young slave from the deep mines who possesses an almost supernatural "internal architecture"—the ability to intuitively map, calculate, and manipulate the physical, chemical, and thermodynamic laws of the universe. Alongside Prince Merodach (the exiled heir of Babylon seeking to reclaim his throne), the giant miner-engineer Kudur, and the brilliant but anxious scribe Iddin, Zakir leads a scientific revolution. They do not fight with magic or sheer numbers, but by weaponizing the fundamental laws of nature to dismantle the empire’s static chokeholds.