The Citadel was built to endure.Stone walls. Sacred orders. A Queen who listens. A King who remembers.A city convinced that stability is the same as safety.Then people begin to vanish.At first, the disappearances are explained away-clerical errors, reassigned duties, necessary corrections. The Citadel does not panic. It reassures. It documents. It justifies.As fear spreads quietly through streets and homes, the institutions meant to protect the city begin protecting something else: the story that keeps order intact.Kael Draven watches from the margins as the truth fractures.A shadowbound enforcer shaped by oath and restraint, he sees what the city refuses to name-that something ancient has found a way inside its systems, feeding not on chaos, but on obedience.The Queen feels the strain before anyone else.Every decision she makes holds the Citadel together-at a cost she alone must carry.And beneath it all, something waits.Crimson Raven Citadel - Book One: The Beginning of the Fall is a dark epic fantasy about power that does not announce itself, violence that arrives through procedure, and the moment a city chooses certainty over truth.The Citadel does not fall.It decides.