The King Beneath the World - Paperback

For two thousand years, the Patronese have lived beneath the surface of Pagalan.

Hidden in the vast underground city of Tramstell, their civilisation has survived war, ruin and the long silence of a wounded world. Above them, the skies are clearing. Rivers run again. The surface is healing. For Mandrake Martelismore, young King of the Patronese, that fragile renewal brings a question no ruler before him has dared to answer.

Should his people remain buried forever, or rise once more beneath the open sky?

But the world beneath the stone is not merely waiting. It is listening.

Ancient gates begin to stir. Bloodlines awaken. The mysterious green gem, carried from the dying world of Yath Varnel, pulses once more with forgotten power. Within the guarded systems of Tramstell, something older than the Patronese themselves reaches through memory, records and names, seeking a future it was never meant to claim.

As Mandrake struggles against a divided Council, the ambitions of those who fear change, and the terrifying resurgence of an ancient incursion, his kingship becomes far more than a matter of rule. It becomes a battle for love, freedom and the right of one child to live beyond the reach of history.

Bound to the hidden origins of Morganuke Beldere, the emerald sword, the Wise One and the mysteries that shape The Pagalan Chronicles, The King Beneath the World is both an epic continuation of The Pagalan Chronicles Origins and a powerful entry point into the world of Pagalan.

A buried civilisation.
A king who dares to look upward.
A child hidden from destiny.
And a gate that remembers every name.

Far beneath the world, the past is awakening.

And one king must decide what he is willing to lose so the future may survive.