The year is six-hundred-and-sixty-four in the Era of the Radiant Ascendance. Kendal Ciluran Qallin was not born an ordinary mortal, for half his bloodline stems from the fey ancestry of the Ishalnan.
Raised in the unforgiving, primordial winter forests of Mist Hollow, in the far reaches of the Hallorn Kingdom, his life is one of peace and contentment, despite the difficulties of living a remote life on Qallin Manor.
On his sixteenth birthday, Kendal is visited by a vision of war and death, but he cannot make sense of it. Haunted by the vision even as he ventures away from the Mist Hollow for the first time in his life to visit the city of Halliath, Kendal eventually returns home to realize the vision has come alive in his hearth and home.
The Ranu’lai Ishal are a druidic race, with mastery over nature and its ferocity, and invade the Mist Hollow without rhyme or reason, burning everything.
When Kendal becomes separated from his parents and finds the Qallin Manor razed to cinders, he resolves to seek them out, even if it means traveling to the ends of the earth.
Ishali, an enigmatic Ishalnan from a distant, foreign land, promises him vengeance in return for his aid in fighting the Ranu’lai Ishal, for reasons she doesn’t bother to explain.
As winter descends upon the frozen realms of the north, a tragic tale of loss, hope, and redemption unfolds as Kendal fulfills his destiny as the Child of Sun and Moon.