When The Mountains Rose Part 1: The Days of the Ancestors

Long before foreign powers drew borders across the land, the mountains guarded peoples whose laws, memories and loyalties ran deeper than any map.

Along the coast of Bimbia, the ruthless slave hunter Nzatku tightens his grip, feeding a trade built on terror and stolen lives. Far away in the highland kingdom of Obipto, a prince named Anyang is born beneath signs the elders cannot ignore. Raised among ancestral rites, royal rivalries and the exacting discipline of the Manjong, he must learn th...