Torvola has had enough of battle.
Fifteen years of her life had been spent fighting a brutal war to place the queen of Irozia on the throne. Before that she had spent her childhood fighting alongside her father, defending their mining town against the monsters deep under the earth. Now she had found peace living in a small village by the sea with her aging dog, and having regular dates with a friendly selkie. All she wanted to do was live out the rest of her days, even if there was still part of her that yearned for adventure and the thrill of the fight.
Caleste never got the glory she desired.
Fifteen years she had fought under the future queen of Irozia. For fifteen years she had tried to get out from under Torvola’s impressive shadow to prove that she was more than just a merchant’s daughter. To prove that she was someone, that she was the hero that Torvola wasn’t. She got almost everything she wanted: money, some modicum of fame, and a decent chunk of land in the southeastern corner of the queendom to lord over. Now she spends her days governing her countship alongside her wife as well as raising her two sons. Still, her desire for glory and to go down in history as more than just one of the many soldiers that fought in battle burns hot. She wants to go on one last adventure, one more chance for her name to be on the lips of every bard on the continent. Just one more chance.
Cazan wishes that they weren’t seen as a monster.
Fifteen years they had spent fighting for the queen alongside Caleste and Torvola. It was an okay time of their life – only marred by the frequent accusations of them being a blood mage and thus inherently evil. They wished they could say they weren’t bothered by people viewing them as a monster but there was a reason they spent their time after the war wandering the mountains of Quacha Ra. After meeting a young girl with strange magical powers that scared even her own parents, they felt a kinship and took her under their wing. Perhaps they can unlock the mystery behind this girl’s magic and perhaps they can prove they’re not the monster everyone believes them to be.
All three have been separated by time and distance, occupied by their own lives and their own troubles. However, when an unknown magical force begins causing rifts to form beneath the earth — the monsters from Torvola’s past begin to emerge. Torvola must don her sword, shield, and brigandine once more and face this new threat. Caleste sees one more shot at glory and to be viewed as the hero she so obviously is. Cazan feels like their mentee, Queneh, is related to this somehow but they can’t quite figure out the connection. Three lives intertwine once more as the world shatters around them.
This time it’s more than just the queendom of Irozia at stake … It’s the entire continent.
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