Book 0: Part One

Fires rage and the rancour of death fills the clear sky with smoke, ash and the stench of bloodshed. Vultures peck and feast on the corpses of the slain. They are innumerable and they are nothing more then a cavern of victims caught in the machinations of powers and schemes far beyond them. Suddenly, amidst the bodies of beasts and men there is a stirring, a figure emerges from a heap of the dead...