The Age of Heroes is over.
The age of heirs begins.
Achilles is dead. Odysseus has fallen silent. Agamemnon is nothing more than a corpse returned to haunt his own house. Troy still burns in memory, but the weight of the world no longer rests on the shoulders of the great heroes.
It rests on their children.
On Scyros, young Neoptolemus grows up in Achilles' shadow. Too young for war, yet already too violent for peace, he waits for the day when his father's blood will call him to Troy.
On the island of Aiaia, Telegonus, son of Circe, discovers that his mother's silence hides a name, a fault, and a road. Armed with a spear born of the sea, he sets out in search of a father he does not yet know.
In Mycenae, Orestes lives beneath the weight of the black blood of the Atreids. He knows that one day, the dead will demand his return. But to return to Agamemnon's house is to accept that justice can sometimes look like crime.
In the northern lands, Andromache, captive and survivor of Troy, understands that her life will not end with the fall of her city. Between Neoptolemus, Hermione, and the child Molossus, she must learn to turn pain into political intelligence, and servitude into a future.
Then comes Delphi.
Where the gods once spoke, silence settles in. Sons, widows, captives, brothers, and orphans gather there, each carrying a debt inherited from a collapsing world.
The Orphans of the Aether tells what comes after glory: broken houses, dangerous bloodlines, inherited guilt, and survivors who refuse to be nothing more than the shadows of their fathers.
In this sixth volume of The Dynasty of the Aether, the gods withdraw, the heroes disappear, and the children learn a truth more terrible than war itself: one must live after them.
