Eriteya is a huge continent—an fragment of an once-great world destroyed long ago by the Archdemon. This catastrophe happened more than a thousand turns ago, when the New Gods came into the world. They brought down the monster. Order held, the legions of chaos retreated—but the Enemy didn’t accept defeat.
Not long ago, Eriteya was shaken by a chain of inexplicable cataclysms, the result of which was the division of the continent by a wide strip of the Poisoned Land and the disappearance of the Duchy of Kenay. In its place appeared a foreign country where summer never comes.
Ronald Kenaysky is a bastard and the only survivor after that catastrophe—he is forced to hide from the hounds of the Order of the Swordbearers, to whom his missing father once swore an oath of loyalty.
Asta lera Shinoma is the senior interrogator of the Order in one of the southern port cities. During another investigation, she stumbles upon information about the legendary Temple of Elements—the main creation of the One, a being that once breathed life into all inhabited worlds. An attempt to press the investigation further leads to the Enemy sending an assassin to Asta—one from whom it’s impossible to escape.
Eles of Askaniya, the son of the deceased Great Prince of the North’s bodyguard, Ronald’s blood brother, during the execution of the Trial encounters on his path a half-god who offers the warrior a Choice…
Three people are drawn into an incomprehensible plan of higher powers, and the fate of a dying world will be decided in their confrontation.
A bastard, an inquisitor, and a warrior… The sheer being sometimes makes strange choices…