Two Orphans. An Ancient Map. A Trap Set by a Dragon.
Okias and Zinlen grew up eating watered-down gruel in the sleepy village of Pelsdale — a place where nothing ever happened. Until they found a chest in the Copper Maw tunnel that held something far older than either of them could understand.
"The Copper Maw was but a test for the small and the weak. If you survived, bring the Thorn-Seal to the Iron Flagon. Seek the man who walks between the light."
— Note found pinned to the ancient vellum mapThe map pulses with silver ink that moves like a living thing. The destination: an abandoned mine outside Oakhaven — or so the stranger in the tavern claims. But Zinlen, a High Elf whose magical senses register what others cannot, felt something that night at the Iron Flagon. Something with old blood and mountain ice in its veins. Something that was not a man.
