The Plantagenets: kings, crusaders, conquerors. A dynasty forged in fury.
The Plantagenets did not rule England so much as they burned through it. Lions and Leopards is the Unwaking Library's chronicle of the dynasty that produced Richard the Lionheart and Richard II — crusaders, tyrants, scholars, and failures, a bloodline that contained every possible extreme of kingship within its span.
The lions of England and the leopards of France. The Crusades. The Magna Carta. The Black Death. The Hundred Years' War. Lions and Leopards covers the full arc of Plantagenet rule — and the hidden forces that shaped it from beneath the historical surface.
Like all titles in the Aethereal Histories, Lions and Leopards is narrated by Ariaste — the immortal archivist of the Unwaking Library, the long witness whose record covers the full span of the mortal world. Ariaste was there. The vantage is long. The voice is restrained.
Lions and Leopards is concerned with the relationship between individual will and historical force — with kings who believed they were directing history discovering that history had its own intentions, and with the older powers that were using the Plantagenet dynasty's chaos for purposes none of the kings could see.
