Prologue of the End

For more than five centuries, the gods have ruled humanity through the Kaleidoscope of Fate. Every person is born beneath a star. Every star dictates a purpose. Every life is predetermined.

Almost every life.

Hidden in the desert lies Muniesia, the Atheist Kingdom. It is a black nation that rejected the gods, cut the marks of fate from its flesh, and built a society upon the promise that no god should decide what a human being should become.

Into that world comes Gael Dion, a white conqueror wearing the smile of a saviour.

He does not intend merely to save Muniesia from its enemies. He intends to turn its armies, its wounds, and its hunger for respect into weapons for his conquest.

Cissnei wants something smaller: the memories stolen from her. To reclaim them, she defies her Queen and walks away from her first love, only to be dragged into an ancient conflict and forced to confront a cruel truth: not everything lost should be regained.

Far away, nine-year-old Jon wants only his mother back. Born to a father cursed by the stars, Jon is offered a terrible choice. He draws the attention of powers that have spent centuries bending fate, death, and human lives to their purposes. To save those he loves, Jon must decide what he is willing to sacrifice.

And beneath their stories, older forces are at work.

The Lord of the Lost gathers those who chose to fight the world. The Historian records an ending he may be creating. And deep within the oldest layers of the past, the Starbringer waits.

The final chronicle has begun. History is moving toward its end. It demands an answer to one question: Should the power of gods have fallen into human hands?

The will of the world can be defied. The question is what survives the attempt.