The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.An assassin destroys the supernatural Crowns that empower dynasties—then discovers their own child is heir to the greatest one. The next blow against inherited power could strike the person they most need to protect.
The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.
Supernatural Crowns give dynasties real power, and an assassin has made a life of destroying them. Then the assassin discovers that their own child is heir to the greatest Crown of all. A campaign against inherited authority becomes a struggle to protect the person closest to them. Defending the child's inheritance could preserve the very power the assassin has fought to dismantle; continuing to destroy it could endanger the child. The parent must confront a mission that now places opposition to dynastic power in conflict with protecting their own family.
The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.
Ori Refael PeretzConcept in development
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The Crowns make inheritance a source of force.
Supernatural Crowns give dynasties power the assassin has spent a life destroying. Their campaign is directed against authority passed through a bloodline. Discovering that their own child inherits the greatest Crown brings that struggle into the family and changes the cost of continuing it.
The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.
Ori Refael PeretzConcept in development
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The mission now reaches the person they must protect.
Protecting the child may preserve the power the assassin set out to dismantle. Destroying that inheritance may place the child in danger. The parent must weigh a lifetime of opposition to dynastic rule against responsibility for someone whose future is bound to its greatest Crown.
The assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.
Ori Refael PeretzConcept in development
The catalogueThe assassin’s greatest enemy is their child’s inheritance.Concept in development
Inside the story
An assassin. A child. An inherited Crown.
Supernatural Crowns give dynasties real power, and an assassin has made a life of destroying them. Then the assassin discovers that their own child is heir to the greatest Crown of all.
The personal conflict
A campaign against inherited authority becomes a struggle to protect the person closest to them. Defending the child's inheritance could preserve the very power the assassin has fought to dismantle; continuing to destroy it could endanger the child. The parent must confront a mission that now places opposition to dynastic power in conflict with protecting their own family.
Detail from the cover concept
The visual identity
A crown, interrupted.
The cover concept for Crownless. Explore the complete artwork at a larger size.
