Little is known of the old world. Gyon is the last place on earth to have preserved the ancient traditions of Shai-Ryam, once known as Akata. High in the northern mountains, the Renno warriors practice the arts of the blade and spirit. Daolin, a young Renno disciple, is coming upon his seventeenth year, and his last as a junior . . .
The dead are waking. They are taking to clouded flight, westward as the wind carries. They cannot stay, they cannot relent. The sky is an ocean, the mountains a pit, the dark is a light. The waters provide and the king is dead, the sun so long hidden by the moon. Hear the music of the spheres and fly. Now, . . .
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