In the land of Sfinx

A sealed crate surfaces from the flooded sands beneath the Sphinx, and inside it, a bronze mirror rewrites everything Kaelen Lyraeus thought he knew about the ancient world. The twenty-four-year-old cartographer has spent his life safely bent over parchment and maps, content to let history sleep. That peace shatters the moment he touches the artifact, and every map he's ever drawn rearranges itself into an impossible truth: the forgotten oath binding werewolves and lycans was never a legend, and he alone can read its geography. What begins as scholarly curiosity becomes a hunt when an ancient evil stirs beneath the necropolis and a dark lord scratched from every manuscript begins closing in. Kaelen is dragged from his quiet study into a desperate alliance spanning the Eastern Mediterranean-Mycenaean war-clans, Hittite stormpriests, and the last lycan pack-keepers of the Nile delta, each with their own prophecies and demands. The mirror demands more than he bargained for. A young werewolf emissary named Ianthe becomes bound to him through the oath's magic, and their connection becomes both his greatest strength and his deepest vulnerability. As friends fall and the dark lord's forces rise, Kaelen discovers that the maps he drew for a living were always meant to be something far more dangerous: a battle plan for a war that has waited millennia to begin. Beneath the Sunken Pharaoh's tomb, Kaelen faces an impossible choice: restore the ancient oath and save the civilizations of the Mediterranean, or preserve the life he once knew. What will he surrender to redraw the world?