It has been one thousand years since the Great Dragon and his Blessed Flames departed from the world, taking the best of mankind with them.  Leaving the dregs behind. Of course, they promised to return. Until then, those who remain survive in a black wasteland, surrounded by hostile terrain and the descendants of twisted beasts. Halari, a young woman with little room for worship to the gods who left them behind, discovers a dark problem plaguing her people, and in her search for a solution, finds something even more world-changing.  The Obsidian Empire will be reforged.