Kashin

Everyone told him his little sister jumped. He was the only one who refused to believe it — and being right cost him more than being wrong ever could have.

Kashin is the fourth-born of the great khagan Urus and general of the khaganate's land armies, in Tower of Dawn — the soldier-prince who'd rather sleep among his horse-lords than sit at court, carrying two quiet griefs no army could fix.

At a glance

KIND: Human prince of the khaganate — no magic
COMMANDS: The land armies — foot soldiers and Darghan horse-lords
FATHER: Urus, the great khagan of the Southern Continent
LOVED: Yrene Towers — she ended it; he didn't
GRIEF: Tumelun — he alone called her death murder
VINDICATED BY: Duva's possession — his sister was the killer
CHOSE: Mercy for Duva over vengeance
ENDS: Leading the khaganate's army north to Orynth

His people

The ones who mattered.

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Chaol Westfall Captain of the Royal GuardChaol Westfallan allyEnter Chaol Westfall →

The one they faced.

The one they faced

The enemy whose war finally reached the khaganate's proud skies.

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Erawan Valg king of MorathErawanHis ilken crossed the sea and hunted their skies — the war that pulled the southern continent in.Enter Erawan →

What he loves

The ones at his back.

A prince who chose the saddle and the front line over the scheming — and the people who ride behind him.

His soldiers
The riders at his back. He learns their names, and he does not spend them cheaply.
His siblings
Rival heirs, every one — and still his blood. The succession never changed that for him.
The cavalry
Give him a good horse and open ground and he is exactly where he belongs.
The khaganate
The empire he would hold the line for. Not for a throne. For the people standing behind it.

His heart

The people at his back

Ask him what he would die for and he will not say a crown. He would say the soldiers on the line beside him — the ones he would never send somewhere he would not ride first. That is the whole of him: steady, loyal, first through the gate, and honest to the family who spends its life circling the throne he never wanted.

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The Open Steppe The Southern ContinentHe is happier in a field camp than a throne room, at the head of the khagan's horse with the steppe running out flat to every horizon. The army is the one thing in the empire that answers plainly, that doesn't play the long game his sisters play. He'd give all of it — the cavalry, the claim, the lot — to have the youngest of them back.Enter The Southern Continent

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