A Winter of White Ash

<p><em style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Winter is coming to Thalesai and ashes will fall</em><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>My kingdom Thalesai stands at the edge of a great war as the king of the darkness steers his forces against us. Within our own borders a rebellion simmers as tribes threaten to split and rulers start to take sides leaving the wounds the kingdom suffered at the coronation still open and bleeding.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Dathan and I are no longer aligned.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>He's been sent across the sea on a mission shrouded in secrecy tasked with stealing fragments of an ancient weapon lost to myth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And me? The Commandant has given me orders that place me directly in his path. Once again we're rivals-our missions at odds. And yet... how do I stop a man who once fought by my side? Whose touch still lingers like fire on my skin? How do I stay cold when our hearts burn for more?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Everyone insists that what sparked between us is doomed. Our families demand we sever whatever bond was forged.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But what Dathan and I have is not so easily broken.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>We'll sail treacherous seas infiltrate kingdoms where death wears a crown and battle beasts older than the bones of the earth.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But the hardest war waits within us.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Because if we don't confront the darkness of our pasts...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Then Thalesai will fall.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(54 54 54 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And so will we.</span></p><p></p>