The Traitor and The Butcher

When oil and water are forced to mix, empires burn.

Commander Mordane of the Traitor Legion has built his reputation on discipline, strategy, and two centuries of professional warfare. The Slaughter Priest leads the Nameless - berserkers who worship their war god through blood and fury. They are natural enemies, representing everything the other despises.

But when Prince Valdric hires both companies to conquer the unconquerable mountain kingdom of Ardennia, ancient hatreds must give way to an alliance neither wants. For three hundred years, Ardennia's peaks have turned back every invasion. Its cities have never fallen. Its people have never known foreign rule.

Against impossible odds, through burning valleys and frozen sieges, the unlikely allies must learn to fight as one. Mordane's calculated precision wars with the Priest's savage intuition. Disciplined legions clash with religious berserkers. Every victory is paid for in blood, every strategy balanced on the knife's edge of mutual destruction.

But as winter closes the mountain passes and their enemies adapt, both commanders face a terrible truth: they need each other to survive. In the shadow of Ardennia's peaks, oil and water must learn to burn together - or watch their forces die apart.

From desperate night raids to the siege of ancient fortresses, this is the story of an impossible campaign that will forge legends... or bury them in mountain snow.