He came to learn and seek a new path. His enemies found their new way forward first.
Veynar has spent months seeking a master, carrying the weight of the lives he's taken and a spirit bound to his own. He wants answers to the questions that have plagued him. The wilds have other plans.
When a young warrior named Roneth leads him to Stonehaven, a mountain town built with impossible care on the edge of the wilderness, Veynar begins his search. But the Graevath are massing in the trees and driving toward the walls, eager to destroy the lives inside.
The answers he's chased begin here, but Stonehaven's enemies, both within and without, leave him little chance to reason carefully. If he hopes to survive, he'll have to find a path to power that doesn't destroy all he loves.