TOME of Whitetree: Book of Monarchs: Chapter 1

"My name is Guy. I am the watcher, the rememberer-the one who chronicles when warriors fall silent.
I have seen a shadow move across the land, as old as the first dawn and colder than the last night. I have felt kingdoms shudder beneath its passing. I have watched hope die-and rise again-in the same breath.
A king has bargained with darkness.
A dragon dreams of ruin.
A warrior walks toward a fate that may break the world.
And I follow, quill in hand, praying the Maker will forgive me for the truths I must write.
For this is not only the tale of Gideon Beckett.
It is the tale of all of us-standing at the edge of an age that does not care whether we survive it.
If you turn this page...then walk with me.
Into the shadow.
Into the fire.
Into the story that may outlive us all."

Brother Guy of Llano Chapel,
Formerly of Walnut Hill Abbey,
& Humble chronicler of deeds
far larger than himself