The King’s Challenge-it was a proving ground for warriors in the Essalieyan Empire, the hallowed contest that made legends of men. As well as for Valedan, last survivor of the ruling category of the Dominion, it had been a declaration of his to claim the throne taken from the Leonne clan by treachery and assassination.

Failure to earn the name of King’s Champion wouldn’t normally deprive Valedan of either his Dominion or Essalieyan allies, but being successful would announce to the globe that he was no callow boy, about The Uncrowned King no mere pawn in the games of power. And the video games of power were indeed getting played-not only in the Empire and Dominion, but in the far more harmful realm of god, the father of Night.

As the time of the Challenge neared, Valedan and those who guarded him will be hard-pressed to survive very long enough for him to enter your competition. For the demon kin had been collection to hunt him down and destroy him. That they had failed before though many innocents got paid for the price. They must not fail again, for slaying Valedan was however the starting gambit inside a war that could free the Lord of Night time to reign total the mortal globe .