A strange and terrible power once performed dark puppetry with the dead to wage war against the living. One hundred winters ago that power was staunched.
But it has returned.
After a ruinous attack against her kingdom, Princess Elery takes up her father's sword to pursue the path of vengeance. A path that brings her to the dreadful soul-eating dragon of the Dark Woods.
A dragon of legend, possessing power beyond the other spirits of Leria.
But in a world where every fallen body counts among the enemy's ranks, the living may already be out of time.
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