Tales of the Age of Four Empires

Young Erramun comes to the Haegmarch to meet his bride, the last thing on his mind the safety of the land. By the time he arrives, though, his bride is missing and much of her family dead. For Theudhar, the loss is more personal, his mother dead, his sister vanished. Now they and their companions must must battle humanity's oldest and foulest enemies to recover them.

In Nikye in the conquered land of Nesalia, Ozan lives the quiet life he enjoys, running a bookshop and chatting with customers of all stations in life. Now trouble has come to his shop in the form of hauntingly beautiful people with terrifying secrets. People are dying in the streets, and the secret to survival may lie in any of the thousands of books stored in Ozan's mind.

Brother Alden is a young man and new to the Brothers of the Third Star. Called on to join an expedition against the Night of Nights, he's certain he has little or nothing to offer. With six others he must confront the darkness. Within the abandoned Church of St. Denian's everything he know will be challenged, and he will learn bitter lessons, or die.

"Fight with whom you will; avenge those you deem most worthy." The island of Gelio in the Isegsae has know peace for centuries. The people farm and fish in liberty and their children marry in peace. They even have to import their fighting men. When Hudde travels to Gelio, his orders mean nothing to him. All he know for certain is that wherever in this world he goes, he goes to intercept trouble.

Milo, a young man away from home for the first time, encounters a woman on the road. In the ruins of Ospara — once the greatest city in the world — he discovers truths about her that he could never have imagined.

Above the Isegsae looms the city of Roydai. Here, the twisting streets and sagging buildings hold every sort of depravity the human mind can comprehend. Auda, a teenage Healer apprenticed to doddering Oswine can't understand why they've come here, and just as a foreign army lays siege to the city. Oswine has a purpose, though, because he knows the city holds a thousand-year-old secret.