“Jerig!” his mother screamed. The quiet of his street was broken. The gentle lapping sound of waves kissing the beach at the bottom of nearby hill had been replaced by the crackling of fires, the sound of splitting timbers and breaking glass and the popping of hot stones. Women screamed, men shouted, horns blew and bells hammered him from every side with their inescapable, deafening roar.
As Jerig pursues dreams of Imperial Knighthood, threats grow around the once mighty Empire. Jerig travels and learns of the bones buried under the weight of Imperial history.
A dwarven magus must enter a world he grew up only hearing of. As he strives to find his place and faces numerous dangers (and at least one too many gnomes) his naivete in life and love may bring more danger than any enemy ever could.
