Chapter 2 - Discoveries The students sat in the large lecture room, some listening in rapt attentiveness, but most draped over their desks, barely awake. Such were the problems of widening access at Thelorn University, with the capable and the lazy thrown together to fill course quotas. It didn’t help Master Chath’s cause that his subject this afternoon, Comparative History, was a core unit, designed to broaden the education of students who studied a wide array of subjects, both exotic and ba...

Prologue Imperial Date - 693 105 years after the Sundering Many times had the Xa’Charn Mages tried to wipe out the Ghahanian Monks. Barely a Century after the Sundering had first split the Order into its traditional branches of Light and Dark, the Empire was overcome with rebellion as the Mages took to the streets to destroy the Monks, against a general backdrop of resentment that had swept through the rural provinces. The Order of the Spires and the Zanar Assassins had bonded together severa...

Chapter 1 - Rackan Imperial Date - 1881 1293 years after the Sundering Purple and crimson swathes of light suffused the darkening sky, a nightly tableau of wonder out in the wide expanse of the dusty Rackan Plains. The moon shone in diffuse beams, obfuscated by a single cloud, the light filtering the growing dark into a hue of rich colours before true night descended to cloak the earth in encompassing darkness – nature’s ultimate shadow. Motionless, Sorren stood at the edge of the camp, where...