The Lives I · TLADOC
The Life
and Death of
Cedric
A world in
transformation.
The Life and Death of Cedric — the first of The Lives — is an epic historical fantasy series by Sazar, set to release in 2026.
The Ascanian Empire is dead. Yet its ghost still rules the world. In the year 1822 LC, across the continent of Aerona, nations cling to its memory while betraying the very principles that once made it great. Religions rose from its ruins, borders were carved in its name, and the lies that bind the present order together were twisted from its truth.
In Albion, a vast nation split between four seats of power — the Crown, Gaul, Normany, and Sletion — a foreigner and student of the Royal College of Constaria, Cedric, finds himself torn between duty, doubt, and a growing sense that his life was meant for something far beyond the roles laid out before him.
Across the sea, in the sprawling, modernising city of Hestrisis, Alistaire struggles to shelter his siblings from the grinding poverty of a world that was never made for them.
In the halls of Albion’s nobility, Lucy — twelve years old and dismissed by all — refuses to remain unseen. Sharp-eyed and restless beneath the surface of a world that tries to keep her small, she begins to understand the secret web of lies that binds the adults around her.
Valeriya, a foreigner adopted into nobility, carries the weight of something older than Albion itself. Her place in the world — unlike the others — lies not in what she does, but in what she is — someone who belongs to neither the world she came from nor the one that raised her.
Their choices ripple outward — subtly, irreversibly — laying the foundations for a greater design than any can foresee. Between these four, a multitude of lives begin to stir. Men, women, boys, girls — entangled in power, politics, fading identities, and the desperate search for meaning in an increasingly meaningless world.
Their paths converge. Slowly. Inevitably. Into something their modern world has no name for yet.
The Life and Death of Cedric is Epic Historical Fantasy — and beyond conventional genre.
The
Writing
“ Sazar writes as one who has read the ancients as if the ancient world never ended. Written with three thousand years of hindsight and accumulated reckoning, his prose is hardened by the memory and judgment of humanity, with nothing softened to flatter the present. The Life and Death of Cedric is not a novel in the modern sense. It is a new myth entering the record, standing in direct opposition to the decay of this age. ”