The Last cohortUpdated at Nov 11, 2025, 01:59
THE LAST COHORT
Rome has fallen. Its legions are gone. But one last mission remains.
Britannia, 410 AD. The last Roman soldiers are boarding their ships, abandoning the rain-lashed island to darkness. Left behind to cover their retreat, the Cohors IX Hispana—a ghost legion already written out of history becomes the empire’s final, desperate rearguard.
But they are not just fighting Saxon war-bands and vengeful Celtic tribes. An ancient evil is stirring, a primordial force of chaos that preyed on this land long before empires existed. It twists men into monstrous, soulless husks and commands beasts of shadow and bone. As the land itself turns against them, the century-old discipline of the legion is tested against a terror no shield wall was ever built to withstand.
The fate of Britannia will not be decided by armies, but by an alliance of outcasts:
· MARCUS, a young Roman officer holding fast to duty as his world crumbles.
· BRAN, a disgraced Druid who wields forbidden blood-magic.
· HROTHGAR, a weary Saxon warrior seeking a homeland, not a grave.
· MORGANNA, a Celtic princess whose hidden royal blood may be the key to salvation.
Thrown together by fate, these four enemies must unite their swords, their sorcery, and their shattered honor on a suicidal quest. They will race against the rising tide of darkness to find a legendary weapon lost to myth: the Sword of Mars, an artifact of god-like power that could save the world or utterly destroy it.
For fans of the action of The Witcher, the brotherhood of The Last Kingdom, and the epic scale of The Lord of the Rings, The Last Cohort is a thunderous historical fantasy where the last light of Rome is about to be snuffed out… unless one last cohort can light the fire of a new dawn.