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Darkness pervades all things, as does light in equal measure. Timeless is their struggle against one another, as perpetual as the workings of the heavens, and as fundamental as the very essence of life. But all things end, even this terrible rivalry. The time will come when one will gain dominance over the other, and thereby take all things into its hand — into brightness and hope, or into shadow and oblivion. This monumental struggle is unknown to most, and most certainly to Fox, whose life never gave respite to ponder such things. His is another kind of struggle, and he never thought he would escape the clutches of fate’s unfair allotment. Alone and destitute, all he has to his name is rot and whatever he steals, constituting a brutal and unforgiving existence. However, everything changes when he meets a legend, a shadow of an obscured past — a man named Blake Waelgryre. This encounter, as if preordained, opens a floodgate of swift and unrelenting change, opening his eyes to a world he never knew and a life beyond all imagination. But nothing is free, and no adventure is without peril. And the truth, brought by those whose burden is to know it, can bring forth more terror than the most frightening of nightmares. In rediscovering himself, and the very nature of the world he thought beyond his reach, Fox will find himself cast into a tempest that was destined to be his, by blood and fortune.