A senator in disgrace, unable to forget the city and the calling he betrayed.
A mercenary still fighting, long after the war has been lost, desperate to reclaim the homeland he once knew.
A prophet, a reluctant hero, no longer able to walk the path demanded by her faith.
The prophet’s daughter, yearning for her time in the sun but held down by a world determined to use her for its own ends.
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Four lives are entangled beneath the shadow of the mountain.
Families will be splintered and sacred flames quenched, loyalties will be shattered and gods discarded in the face of ambition.
War has returned to the Republic, clouds obscure the Light of the Dawn, and a forgotten hunger stirs in the depths of the world.