Set in the fantastical world of Empire, The Chalice Inverted is a political epic spanning the thirteen-year career of Nicovar "the Mad", his rise, his reign, and his final disastrous end. Along the way he finds love, wins a throne, puts down a revolution, and learns how unwise it is to antagonise a wizard. Isaella the warrior and James the magician are his companions on the journey, but some stories can only end in blood...