Prologue

VILLAGE OF VILESC, LYRISCU, THE GREAT FIRE WARS

Near midnight, a wailing was heard from the edge of the enchanted forest by a young Mora returning from a hunt.

The smoke rising from the horizon was not right. It billowed luminescent in the moonlight, a sickly blue with a shimmer of silver.

“Zemavapti,” Roh whispered. Dragonfire.

Roh mounted her horse in a single bound, digging her heels into her flanks as the roaring sounds of a burning village tore through the night.

The Daemyn blood...

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