The Kettle-Claw Alliance

Some martial sects seek enlightenment atop misty peaks. The Kettle-Claw Alliance seeks dinner. Across the scorched plateaus of the outer realms, Gijsbert van der Meulen and his heavyweight grapplers wander with a six-ton bronze pot strapped to their oxen, convinced that martial perfection is achieved by suplexing apex beasts into broth. But when the immaculate Iron-Braid Empire begins capturing the legendary horned leviathans to breed a world-crushing war herd, cooking becomes rebellion. To protect the wild planes, Gijsbert, spear-wielding chef Femke, and an increasingly horrified captive aristocrat must wrestle the continent's fiercest monsters before the warlord can saddle them. In this sect, honor isn't given—it's braised slowly over cedar wood.