In the wake of a catastrophic cataclysm that claimed the lives of both mortals and powerful gods, the remnants of mortal-kind begin to rebuild civilization in the world of Thearus. But, unseen by many is an ancient and evil force that seeks to bring darkness across the land once more.
The year is seven-hundred-and-eighty-five in the era of a Sanctum of Swords. Five years have passed since the events that nearly saw the Golden Valley destroyed and the beating heart of the Carth Dominion torn from the Children of the Sun’s empire. Karayan Akara, High Queen of Sukhan and Grandmaster of the Ashen Blade Syndicate, fell in that tragic battle.
A time of fleeting peace is nearing its end, as the Children of the Sun recommence their crusade to achieve their manifest destiny, the unification of Khios continent beneath one domain.
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.
The year is seven-hundred-and-eighty-eight in the era of a Sanctum of Swords. Three years have passed since Akopia kingdom and her allies overcame the Children of the Sun and the joint threat of the Esoteric Void’s invasion. A lingering truce between the warring kingdoms has seen Khios enjoy some respite, and peace endures throughout the eastern realms.
Realizing that she will not be inheriting the Throne of the Sun Caller Kings or the Carth Dominion, Shoushan Sar Amun resolves to depart the Golden Valley for the foreseeable future.
As the tribes of the U’skar Qi descend upon the Old Myrian Empire, an ancient prophecy will awaken, and the hearts of warriors will be tested in the crucible of conflict.
The Great Exodus has begun. Fleeing the relentless expansion of the Grand Empire of Xura, the U’skarite tribes set sail for the Old Myrian Empire. As the kingdom rallies its forces to defend against an invasion, Ara Zakarian, a loyal knight of the Autumn Queen, finds himself captured by the very tribe he was sent to defeat.
