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 ruling Hiervalan brotherhood. "King Feramond"s Bloodless Five," it is dubbed. The king"s tenuous hold on the realm is broken when Silas Barrad, the charismatic lord commander of the Azarians, seizes Actaentum, the Imperial City. Lord Commander Barrad and his army begin to advance north through the realm and the cracks of the late king"s alliance begin to show. Here, heroes are not born from legend. They are created from ordinary individuals thrown into extraordinary circumstances. A battered young girl, a soldier of fortune, a daughter of grapes, a carpenter"s apprentice, a smuggler lord, a disgraced bodyguard, and two young nobles will be forced to work together; as their lives, and the realm"s future, hinges on their success. "The most extraordinary form of control is to pervert the masses to such an extent that they become the instrument of their own oppression." - Andreos Eveas "Ghost" Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Twilight of an Empire (Chris Justis and Ian Leviness)