The village appears at sunset and vanishes by sunrise. Zeryl is about to learn why. Three hundred years ago, the desert village of Khemta failed to renew the seal on a book that held a corrupted guardian of the wind. Now the whole village is caught in a time loop, and Eydis, the chief's...

On Elibria, nine elements answer to nine relics. Zeryl already carries one of them, and he has no idea. Seventeen years ago, King Poccia Q-Varnise burned the city of Cali-Maktar to the ground. Zeryl was eight. His parents died in the fire, and the king rebuilt the ruins into his capital, Tresca...

Xeonix Novus grew up on the outskirts of Sacar, carving wood and wondering why no one in his family would talk about his grandfather. Xeon Clerics was the Whistling Swordsman, the hero of Picodesh, and he disappeared in the last war. Then a stranger in the market hears that name and offers to...

History remembers chess as a game of two colors. It used to have four. Lord Kaelen Pique-Ashva is the Spade-Hold's sharpest spy, a knight who trusts logic over faith. His Raja sends him into the Heart-Ward, a red kingdom of priests and parade armor, with one job: find out whether its so-called...