I grew up in a snowbound Northern Kingdom, in the harsh castle of Riversteyn. In an orphanage for girls. I don’t know who I am, or how I ended up behind the walls of this terrible fortress surrounded by centuries-old pines. I am destined to become an acolyte of the Order, and after initiation—to become its educator… But all my life is just an illusion. And one day I heard the Call. The curse of our world—the Call that beckons me into the Black Lands.
But is the world really the way the mentors say it is? And are the legends truly lies that they tell about demons and magicians? And most importantly, what terrible secret does the gloomy mass of Riversteyn hide?