In the village of Ashfen, on a road that leads nowhere, a boy named Rowan has spent seventeen years making himself invisible. Unwanted by the family that took him in, he has learned to be small — to work, to watch, and to ignore the shadows that move toward him in moments of fear.
Then an old warrior named Aldric rides into the farmyard and tells him he is worth choosing.
What follows is a year of hard roads and harder lessons — in swordsmanship, in the history of a broken world, and in the deep power that runs in Rowan's blood. A power the enemies of the Sundered Realm would kill to extinguish. A power that, in the right hands, might begin to restore what was lost.
But restoration has a cost. And some debts are paid in ways that cannot be undone.
The Weight of Chosen Things is the first chronicle of the Sundered Realm — a story about a boy who was hidden, a world that is breaking, and the old warrior who believed in both of them enough to act.
