The Fool of God

He died in one world.

Then woke up in another.

Bulgarium is a kingdom locked in a losing struggle against the wilderness beyond its borders. Monsters, bandits, and worse things lurk in the north, while the old orders tasked with defending the realm slowly fade into irrelevance.

Filip arrives in this world with nothing.

Raised in an orphanage, sold into slavery, and eventually brought to Castle Rykard, he finds himself among the Marchwardens—a declining frontier order desperately trying to hold the line with too few men, too little funding, and a reputation built on a past that no longer exists.

Life on the frontier is harsh. Every expedition beyond the walls carries the risk of death, and every year the Marchwardens grow weaker.

Yet Filip’s greatest problem may not be the frontier.

A child-like god appears in moments when time itself seems to stop, calling him “jester” . Strange gaps appear in reality. Events unfold incorrectly. Things happen that shouldn’t be possible.

And somewhere beneath the crumbling borders of Bulgarium, something ancient has begun to stir.

Whether Filip becomes a knight, a survivor, or something far stranger may depend on why the world seems to be watching him.