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Exhausted and sickened, but victorious, Kyre - The Foundling Barbarian - returns to Lordstown from a slaughterous expedition against border invaders from the neighbouring realm of Aitierra.
Ill-used by the Sisterhood of the Rua; adored or abandoned by a succession of lovers; seemingly at the whim of a wrathful Lord Rogor, he is sentenced to be tortured, castrated, and flogged to death.
His body is left chained, and hanging naked from the scaffold atop Beacon Hill in a ferocious storm.
Blasted by crackling bolts of lighting, and in the face of the lord’s vengeful high captain, and a troop of fearful troopers, can anything save him?
In the black-raging sky, is the single point of light Syrtius, his guardian star. Does she merely look on? Or is it her who forces a single beat to squeeze a few drops of blood through his carcass? Might she reveal a clearer direction for his destiny?
Will it be to protect the Lordlands? To unite the Five Realms? Or to destroy them all in the face of infinite betrayal and surging inner turmoil.