A Fate of Dragons (Book #3 in the Sorcerer's Ring)

You might kill them allbut do you really want the blood of your fellow brothers on your hands? Do you really want to spark a civil war? For you, your men would risk their lives, kill anyone. But is that fair to them?

roamed

as if a dagger had just been plunged into his chest

His confidence had been shaken to the core

Everything he had imagined, from the time he was a child, had been a lie. A delusion. He had believed in his own fable.

And it had crushed him