Twilight of an Empire (Hiervalan Chronicles) (Volume 1)

Enter into Gwyneran, a realm that is finally at peace after the ten provinces are united under one king for the first time since the fall of the Hiervalan. “King Feramond’s Bloodless Five,” it is dubbed. The king’s tenuous hold on the realm is broken when Silas Barrad, the lord commander of the Azarians, seizes the Imperial City. Silas Barrad and his generals begin to advance north through the realm and the cracks of the late king’s alliance begin to show. Steeped in the bedlam of a war to conquer Gwyneran, Twilight of an Empire is a story of Eliza Valdez, a young girl who loses her brother to the war and remains a victim of her father’s abuse. A story of Andreos Eveas, a vigilante in the recently occupied city of Southgate called, “The Ghost” by the Azarians that rule there. Enialis Siannodel, a prince of the Amber Citadel where his family is running the city to financial ruin. Aranar Krygan, a farm boy from Silverwood who is raised by his uncle and taught the ancient ways of the Hiervalan. Aiden, a monk from the religious zealots of the Order of Seraphil who stumbles upon a blasphemous book and starts to question his faith. Raelan Valayre, a smuggler-lord from the Principalities of Sarsallen, who will stop at nothing to reclaim his lost land. Their pasts are drastically different, yet intertwined on their journey to the frigid northern metropolis of Cloudview, where a man who was thought by many to be only a legend, is working to construct an ancient order, The Hiervalan, in hopes that they will once again rise from the ashes of their once-great rulers. Here, heroes are not born; they are forged from the souls of ordinary characters that are forced into extraordinary circumstances. “Let the Hiervalan rise once again from the ashes of the old.”