Empire's origin
A Saga of Darkness and Redemption
"These men and women in these pages are flesh and blood, muscle and bone, and they bleed just like any other, and they suffer and wither like any other, irrespective of that they overcome that struggle, their pain and their complexes—like you, and like me."
The Empire of The Monsters: Behind the Saga
Just to be noted this is the quickest book that I have ever written, my chosen genre for my earlier three books were bit different before this, and this world and these characters were not part of my initial opening gambit as an author, but…sometimes the logical part of you will be overruled, the strategical part of you will be ignored, and replacing either will be the emotional part of you.
These characters and this world are like that to me, no matter how many times I ignored them these men and women from the valley and the Empire came into my dreams, haunting me, possessing me, guiding me and advising me, till the entire part of my life was consumed by them, transporting me to their world ploughing their pain, their sorrow, their anger, their tragedy, their hatred, and their laughter devouring every waking second of my life—to such an extent that the third book that I was in the process of editing was put on hold.
And I stopped my decade of planning and building of another world, forging another set of heroes and villains, crafting their life and their path, most of you think me mad and you have every right to be, for I have tried my level best to ignore my emotional part of me, but that little shit would not listen, he did not and could not be subjugated, he was adamant and please do understand this decision was not made in the spur of the movement, no the struggle between my logical and my emotional side lasted for weeks and months, and both of them, both of me could not come into any middle ground, and in-between all of this my writing was getting affected, but that cannot happen that must not happen.
Thus one day as rain dripped outside my window, sleeping on my cot and the laptop before me I wrote and edited three pages of my third book, and my index fingers tapping on the body of my laptop, watched the page that I had typed and the cursor halted there, my body was tired and my mind even more so, the scene that I wrote was a pretty gruesome even for me, it was deeply dark and deeply twisted, and it was hard for me to grapple with that, I desperately needed something and someone to pull me from that scene and that world, and before I could understand my fingers closed the document and replaced with a blank one, and before I knew it my fingers began tapping and when it was done the word count on the fresh page as that scene ended was three thousand and it was for the next book on the series.
And I realized why the pull for this series was so strong within me, why my mind and my body was grappling with this decision for so long, for these men and women in these pages are flesh and blood, muscle and bone, and they bleed just like any other, and they suffer and wither like any other, irrespective of that they overcome that struggle, their pain and their complexes—like you, and like me, for these men and women in these pages, are not simply a character in a world, no they are something more and they are something pure…they are emotions, they are expressions, they are my companions and me their herald, and for the first time in my life I was happy, and that intoxication spread, so what began on that rainy day, did not end, would not end, and could not end, and before I knew it months had passed, and in my laptop there was a full blown novel, my fourth one and the shortest amongst all of them, thus another tragedy was born forth from my mind, and put forth in these pages.
And from these pages were born the tale of Empire…
…as for the other three novels, it may not be today, it may not even be tomorrow, or the month after that, or the year after that, or even the decade, but one… day I am going to come back to that world and conclude that tale. But before that my primary concern is to finish this tale in its entirety and I intend to do just that.
Sir Chanakya's Sketch
Early Imperial period.
The Intellectual Sketch of the Empire
Among the earliest surviving artifacts related to the territorial conception of the Empire is a document now commonly referred to by historians as Sir Chanakya's Sketch. This map, drawn in crude ink and graphite strokes upon a single parchment sheet, is widely believed to represent the earliest strategic draft of the Empire's territorial design. Though lacking the refined geometry and cartographic precision of later imperial atlases, the sketch possesses a raw clarity that reveals the intellectual framework behind the Empire's expansion.
The document is traditionally attributed to the Imperial Intellectuals — those whose political foresight and strategic minds shaped the philosophical foundations of the Empire. Several among them are believed to have contributed to the document's conceptual structure:
Concept by: Sir Aristotle and Sir Sun Tzu.
Designed by: Sir Galileo Galilei and Sir Miyamoto Musashi.
Drawn to paper by: Sir Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Rumi, and Sir Dante Alighieri.
Implemented by: Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Charles Darwin.
Executed by: Sir Friedrich Nietzsche and Sir Niccolò Machiavelli.
Overseen and approved by: Sir Chanakya.
The map itself is striking in its simplicity. Rather than attempting to portray the landscape with artistic realism, the sketch focuses on the strategic relationships between regions. Rivers are drawn as bold guiding lines, mountain chains appear as triangular barriers, and forests are marked only by clusters of crude symbols. Cities and strongholds are represented not as detailed structures but as nodal points within a larger system of movement and control.
Most notable within the sketch is the prominence of Cold Valley — a region that Chanakya identified as the keystone of the Empire's northern frontier. Positioned between harsh mountains and volatile borderlands, the valley appears in the sketch as both a defensive bastion and a strategic gateway. Later imperial records would confirm that the early expansion plans of the Empire were built upon precisely this insight.
The document also reveals the intellectual philosophy that guided its creators. Chanakya and his contemporaries believed that an empire could not expand through conquest alone — it required structure, foresight, and geographic understanding. The sketch therefore reflects not merely a map of territory, but a map of strategic thought: a visual representation of how the Empire might one day be organized, defended, and sustained.
Today, The Chanakya's Sketch is regarded by historians as one of the most significant conceptual artifacts of the early Empire. Though primitive in form, it captures the moment when the Empire existed not yet as a political reality, but as an idea forged by the minds of its earliest architects.
In the rough lines of that parchment, one can glimpse the origins of a civilization that would later shape the destinies of countless regions and peoples. What began as a modest intellectual exercise within the chambers of Chanakya and his council would eventually evolve into the vast and formidable structure known throughout history as The Empire of the Monsters.
Volume 1: The Demon of the Cold Valley
Description
They came for me, when i had let my guard down. Even though i had expected the empire of the monsters and its acursed emperor, to come at me with everything they had.
They came for me when i had least expected them too, in a way i had least predicted them too, using the methods and tactics that made them, and made him for who he is.
See...Peace can do that to a man. Hope can do that to a man. Light can do that to a man. It can make you lower your guard down. Even though i had honed my fists and mind, i would and should not have lowered my guard down. Because i had done so, the people i cherished the most-the men and women of the cold valley, suffered for my negligence and my incompetency. and worst of all my little brothers and sisters paid them,with their future and their innocence.
By doing this they caused a bloody war. By taking from me they instigated a bloodshed. and either of them they should not have done. For They should have learnt from their mistake long ago, it was not mercy that made me give their, and his life back to him- it was anger. pure and fresh in very format and flavor.
And the thing about any war, and the thing about any battle, is that the demons are always the one's to dominate. Because they are the incarnation of carnage and death.
My name is of no importance. But the moniker, and the epithet called the demon of the cold valley that i use, is of the greatest of significance.
And this is my tale. This is my tragedy. But most of all this is my conquest, and pursuit of justice.
The Prophecy
"Burn the cold valley to the ground,
take away their hope by vanquishing their courage,
shatter their future by crushing their present,
break all their heroes by killing their loved ones,
bleed them, gut them, carve them, and chop them,
and kill all the men and women with it,
So those that do survive would rather die than live.
Thus, with it beginning the end of the cold valley…
…and nay nay nay nay nay the end is near, the end is near.
Let the accursed cold valley be burnt to the ground."
Author
From Reader to World-Builder
Ever since I first held that book of my favourite author in my hand, I wanted to be an author. I wanted to build a world just like that, with characters just as complicated and compelling as that. With history vast and rich as that. I may never reach such vast heights, but still a man can try. So yeah, to sum it up—books, books and books are all I have known. And books, books and books is all I want to read and write.
Literary Influences
Sage Vyasa
Mahabharata
For its legendary prose, characters, policts, diversification of battles, lore, villians and immense world-buildingKentaro Miura
Berserk
For its diversification and contradiction of good and evil,and light and darkEichiro Oda
One Piece
For its diversification of villains,back stories, characters, and world building, and foreshadowingSteven Erikson
Malazan Book of the Fallen
For its prose, its factions, and its diversification of battles, and lore and immense world-buildingSiu/Lee Jong-Hui
Tower of God
For its strategy, lore, and immense world-building, and battlesGeorge R.R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire
For its in-house politics, strategy, and battles, and characters, and villainsJoe Abercrombie
The First Law Trilogy
For its grim dark characters, and villainsNaoki urasawa
Monster, 20th Century Boys, Pluto, and Billy Bat
For its Plot, characters, world building, and villainsBeyond the Written Word
Music
Pathos and melancholy resonate through my playlists, from Ilayaraja to Lewis Capaldi i cherish all of them
Walking
Each step taken with music in my ears, rejuvenates and recharges my soul that much more
Travel
Through travel, I find meaning in life and understand the cultures that shape our world
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