A ratta was a mighty empire just yesterday, but now it has been left without a legitimate ruler and is plunging into darkness. Every inhabitant of the country—whether a prince-heir or the grandson of the Ingrian sorcerer, the ruler of a warlike people or a renegade cast out from his own tribe—understands this: the old life, the old world is already gone.
Unbelievable rumors spread about the kidnapped heir to the throne—Aure. They say he is alive, performing miracles, and even the furious Sea of Serpents obeys him. Could he indeed be a son of a god, and can he strike down the Primordial Serpent with an arrow from a sun bow?
In the south, in the mountains of Nakhara na, an ancient emblem of power is raised on banners—the Serpent Sun. The prince’s bodyguard, Shiram, having proclaimed himself king of the free people who want to destroy Aratta, begins a war. But his fiancée, Ayuna, has disappeared without a trace in the forests. Rumor has it that she was abducted by shapeshifters…
Meanwhile, two children in a forest teeming with monsters find a magical tree—and in its hollow, a golden thread that looks like a bowstring. If only they knew who is guarding it…