The North Wind Rises

Twenty-year-old Aster Courbayne, along with her younger sister Leto, has spent the last ten years of poverty helping her father, the chancellor of a small town called Belloq, to feed and shelter the poor. Supplies have started to dwindle as Belloq houses more and more refugees escaping from the Deluge-an enormous 200 meter-tall wall of ocean and storm that rose from the coasts of their island-continent of Aberon, and is swallowing it whole. Inch-by-inch.

To beg for aid, the Dukes of the land have spent the last ten years sending messengers into the Wards, a series of deadly trials that guard the city Lytkeros, where the last Fae of Aberon have resided for 500 years.

After a freak storm sweeps through Belloq, Aster gets an audience the Duke of their surrounding lands and begs that more supplies be sent. When he refuses, a great dormant power in Aster erupts.

Now Aster has been sent by the Duke to plunge through the deadly Wards to call upon the Fae for aid-for her powers might be the key to survival as they plunge towards the city.