It has been said that everything that is powerful will one day come under siege. In the year 788, the capital and largest city of Innisfail, Rammath-Innis, comes under siege by the hosts of three Dreadlords. As the pressure mounts and Sonderin uses a powerful new weapon, General Scion Cross must make a very difficult decision. The fate of the Empire is now in his hands, but hope comes with a startling new plan. Far to the east, Kaspar takes Starseed and finds a new world, and Cross maneuvers to make powerful new allies. He vows a great crusade and leads the Army of Innisfail west again to reclaim lands and titles lost and forestall a long dark age under the deepening shadow of the Dreadlords.

Learning this, Duke Morgin Grenfell now sorties from his mountain fortress of Cartimandua to reclaim his Ducal fief in Rhaingoll and join the war against the Shadows.

Now, from the author of the long running Kirov Series, comes an epic Fantasy series as broad and detailed as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and as gritty and real as George Martin's Game of Thrones. This is mythic military fiction at its best.