Daughter of Dusk

In days long past, upon a solitary hill in the East, there stood the ruins of the House of Letters, where the wisdom of vanished ages had once been preserved beneath a tower of seamless black stone.Men had long shunned the place. They spoke of restless shades among its broken halls, and of forgotten inscriptions no living scholar could read, and of voices heard upon the hill after nightfall.Stándor, a young Man of Druvia, cared little for such warnings. Drawn more strongly to old songs and lost histories than to the games of war celebrated in the glade below, he climbed the hill with his companions and wandered alone among the ruins.There, at the coming of dusk, something occurred of which he would afterward speak to almost no one.What passed beneath the Black Tower would divide his life in two and bind his fate to a mystery older than the kingdoms of Men.Daughter of Dusk is a solemn mythopoetic tale of memory, longing, devotion unto death, and the price of remaining faithful to that which the world has forgotten. It is the first published tale of the Anūmātalar, a mythopoetic legendarium of the Living Earth.