First Word

For seven thousand turns, the Ta'el have searched the ruins of the human world for the answer to one quesiton: What fel events wiped the humans from the Earth?

On this day, Ayasha joins all those Ta'el that have gone before in the task of answering that question. Yet, she finds that achieving the culmination of a lifetime of training, the title of Stone of the Hearth, is not at all as she expected when she is named the Speaker.

Attempting to decipher the elusive portents of her new name revea...