Twenty Blades of the Rajah

June 1565. One hundred thirty-five days after the Battle of Talikota, which razed the Vijayanagara Empire, a cult emerges in the Western Ghats—the Rakshasas. Villages are burned, captives are taken, and people flee. The Rajah of Kaladurg sends twenty Rajputs under the command of Captain Rana Singh to destroy the sanctuary and free the prisoners.In the monsoon forests, at an altitude of eight hundr...