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Akinos is dead, and the Wasting ended. For a year and a half
all is well in the world.
Then terror arrives in Landomere. Mercenary raiders capture
the infant children Orlos and Enna. Orlos, the son of Maret, is the only living
spiridus. Without him the Great Spirit of Landomere will perish. Enna, the
daughter of Hadde and Morin, is a rival to the throne of the Kingdom of
Salador. It is a claim Queen Ilana would like to see ended.
Maret, captured with the children, struggles to keep them
safe during the dangerous journey to Salador. Hadde will risk everything to
save them.
To the north, a weary Champion Nidon returns from war to
find a paranoid Queen Ilana plotting against threats real and imagined. To her
eyes, Nidon is the greatest threat of all.
Far to the east, beyond the Dragon’s Gate, Cragor wields the
Orb of Creation. And with every passing day, his mastery of the Orb grows and
the date of the next great invasion draws closer.