IN TIMES SUCH AS THESE, GREAT MEN ARE MADE. OR THEY ARE BROKEN. The boy plucked from his idyllic home in a brutal invasion and the sister who follows desperately to rescue him. The iron-willed queen who risks everything to win a crown for her son and the righteous soldier who finds himself walking the fine line between justice and vengeance. Together, these four weave a tale of loss and redemption in a world slowly going mad, stirred by dark things long aslumber and now awakening. But there is a fifth that should not be so easily discounted, one whose gaze is drawn by the tidings of a stark prophecy, and the only thing certain is this: To those that manage to cling to survival, nothing will ever be the same again.