Lineage and lust are the keys to all power. By privilege of divine lineage, the Patriarch rules a dying empire powered by eternal life. The children of God, are granted several uncanny supernatural abilities. Though the most coveted is the most cursed: the promise of eternal life. The price? The soul of their oldest son, each new generation devoured forever in an endless cycle of filicide and rebirth into an unending line of heirs and spares. Fraternal twins, Regina and Reginald, along with their lifelong friend Chance, must learn to handle the weight of their birthright and their duty to wield it wisely. A girl is forced to become a queen, an awkward boy indoctrinated into a not so secret cabal, and a young man bent into a hero of war. Love in a harem, loss in an ice-kissed mountain realm, and of uncanny fortune in far-flung battlefields. The Children of the Patriarchy must learn who they are and who they want to be. Be a servant to royalty and religion, or will they forge their own destiny?  We are all children of our fathers, but there can only ever be one Patriarch.