Ashes of the Black Sun

In the fractured continent of Tharador, seven kingdoms teeter on the brink of collapse after the long-vanished Black Sun reappears in the sky-a celestial omen tied to ancient prophecy. Long believed to be myth, the Black Sun is said to awaken the Dread Wyrms, a race of sentient, chaos-born dragons imprisoned for millennia beneath the world's crust, and herald the rise of a Bloodborne Queen destined to either unify or destroy the realm.

Amidst crumbling alliances, assassinations, and shifting power, two souls marked by fate rise from opposite ends of the world:

• Aeris Kaelthorn, a disgraced former war general hiding among mercenaries, haunted by the massacre he led under false orders. He bears a mysterious link to the ancient Direwolves of Ryvir, believed extinct.

• Serenya Virelle, a noblewoman imprisoned in the Ivory Asylum, plagued by visions of fire and blood. She is unaware that she carries the dormant bloodline of the Stormbrood-a lineage tied to dragons long thought dead.

When Serenya is broken out of the asylum by a rogue priestess, and Aeris is drawn into a political conspiracy to assassinate a mad king, their paths converge. Together, they uncover that the prophecy is real-and one of them is fated to awaken the Dread Wyrms that lie beneath the Obsidian Crater, while the other must decide whether to stop them... or help them burn the world clean.

The stakes are raised with cursed artifacts, dark magic, ancient gods, demon-worshipping cults, forbidden love, undead armies, and monstrous dragons that speak in riddles and remember the sins of men.

Meanwhile, in the frostbitten north, direwolves long bound to noble bloodlines stir from their icy dens, choosing sides in a war that will reshape the balance of power.