Six kingdoms. One fractured world. And secrets older than them all.
The death of a king is enough to place an entire realm on the edge of civil war. A missing will, rival claims to the throne and old ambitions threaten to break a fragile peace just when the world begins to reveal that it is far larger-and far stranger-than anyone imagined.
Across the known lands, soldiers, scholars, mercenaries and rulers are drawn into events they barely understand. Beyond dangerous seas lie unknown territories, ancient ruins and peoples whose existence challenges everything the kingdoms believed about humanity.
Nijon, Topo, Kekh, Palom, Muler, Vadim and their companions will cross borders that were never meant to be crossed. Their journey will uncover forgotten connections between distant civilizations, while in the south another conflict grows into something far more dangerous.
Because the six kingdoms are not alone.
And while old enemies continue fighting one another, a new power is already moving through the east.