20 parts Ongoing MatureFight to Survive
In a world where light and warmth can last centuries and darkness and cold a lifetime, threats are nearing. The darkness is returning, and in the barren wastelands to the South of Stormhold, evil and magical forces are amassing beyond the Four Kingdom's protective cliff, the Great Barrier.
Light Before Dark. Those are the stern words of House Nightfall. There Lord Alister Nightfall rules in the name of the Queen. His eldest son, Jaime, is selected for the deadly Trial of Descendancy. An annual event that sees a total of twelve men and women into a maze where they must fight to get out safely.
As the Nightfalls and their bannermen head for the capital, Osvara, and a fateful encounter that will change the course of history. Meanwhile, across the Sundering Sea: Nikolai Riverside, heir to Solara, whose father seeks to end the thousand year conflict with the Wood Elves of Drathis, schemes to figure out a way to save his sister, Sylva from a fate worse than death, a marriage proposed by their father to the Great House of Valcrest.
Among plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, violence and peace, the fate of these two families, their allies, and their enemies hangs dangerously in balance, as each seeks for both their house, and their family legacy to survive. And an ancient, deadly prophecy resurfaces, known only by a few as a Story of Blood and Ash.
