The Awakening

In the year 2525, an old man dictates his memoirs. "My awakening began when I was fifteen years old …"

He was born Tel of Wolf Run, younger son of Greatbeard Arn, the wolf baron. He grew up in a camp of mountain raiders who preyed on the vestiges of civilization in a collapsed world. As a teenager, he was to endure a solitary trek across an infinity of blinding snow and biting ice, and to find refuge in a remote sanctuary where a new way of life was being taught, a way of life meant to chang...