Resistance

With the Shadow's regime toppled, Iskandir, the rebel leader, has to rebuild Tiallat from the ground up. The harvest has failed, religious tensions are rising, and years of harsh rule have left deep damage. Meanwhile, soldiers who served the Shadow need to get home, and exiles are streaming back into the newly freed land and need places to live.

Then the sickness starts. A thousand years earlier, a blight in the north claimed more lives than the war that came before it. To face this plague, Iskandir must look to Halsarr, a dragon who has just woken, a scholar and physician who has no interest in fighting another war. Even if Halsarr is willing to help, Iskandir dreads what his involvement will bring to light.

Halsarr once loved a bold, reckless elemental of the steppes, who later became the Dual God of Tiallat, a solitary and powerful Lord with two faces. That god has been absent since the Shadow arrived in the country, and the history between them is the truth Iskandir fears.