Introduction

Have you ever had questions about the Books of Life and Death? Or how about Ibsin's power? Or maybe even how all of Tarase came to be, until its final destruction in 1081? Or perhaps if any other Tarasens made it out of the world before it was destroyed?
Well, here it is, the answer to all of your questions. The origin of it all.
The origin of Tarase, of its people, and one very speacil Blackscale, who would change the course of the entire world, forever.