Trian stands on the brink of destruction. Its armies crushed under the iron gauntlet of Imperial might.

The High Council flees underground to escape the General’s fanatical search to purge their lives from existence. A quest fuelled by his own deteriorating health as the deadly effects of the life-altering serum begins to take its toll.

Meanwhile, Leos travels north with Lyanna to the storm-ridden slopes of Mount Volantos. A journey overshadowed by the Cowldonian’s growing anxiety. For secretly he fears, once the truth has been revealed, there will be no going back. His fate, and the fate of a nation, will be sealed...