A dark cloud hangs over Luc Derune, child to parents dead in the last war and now the adopted son of a secretive Baron. After being sent away he must fight a strange enemy to the north and grapple with his own conflicting lineage. Gwendolyn Rune lives a charmed life as daughter to one of the most powerful lords of the kingdom, but in her heart she longs for something more. When a chance to travel to the royal capital presents itself she grabs it with both hands and refuses to let go. Aelfric Rune is an oddity in his family, a boy more obsessed with books and stories than swords and tourneys. When he witnesses a supernatural sight his life is forever changed- for the worse most believe but Aelfric can feel something change from within him... Something powerful.  Updates every Wednesday.