Tides of Darkness Synopsis

“Child of the Blood, a Doom upon us you shall bring. Burden not your heart, for yours is a destiny far worse than ours.”


It is a time of trepidation in South Lorin. Tradesmen toil to restore Silverdale to its former glory, but something stirs beneath the ancient ruin. A long forgotten presence casts its shadow beyond the great curtain walls to consume the entire South. Neighbouring Lords vie for each other's wealth and power as an old superstition rears its head in the guise of a sinister plague. Followers of the Temple of Life are losing faith, turning to pagan deities as the staunch members of the clergy sense the influence of their Goddess waning.

In these fearful times the lord of Peaksview, Austin Von Blackmere, is murdered, his mantle falling to his eldest son and heir, Kyle. Heirless and with the responsibility of a fiefdom in disarray thrust upon him, Kyle struggles to retain his birthright. A birthright his younger brother, Rodiah, voraciously quests to make his own.

As the brothers contest their station in the ever changing face of the southern court, their sister, Stephanie, turns her back on her heritage for a dream of love and position of honour as a King's agent. The life of a Sovereign Highwayman is more grit than glamour, an adventurer’s life suited to few men and fewer women. Swept up in events beyond her control, she finds herself defending the lives of a foreign princess and unborn heir from a sinister foe, who is both methodical and ruthless in his endeavours.

At every turn the Von Blackmere siblings find themselves at the heart of a conspiracy that, at the very least, could send the South spiralling into the grip of civil war. An arrant act of madness that appears to be their father's only legacy.

This is the age post the Wars of the Bloodlance. A volatile era, with but a few certainties; nothing is what it seems, the dead refuse to sleep and none shall suffer more than the innocent.

The age of Reckoning is upon them and the only means of survival will be to unlock the rhythm conducting the Dance of the Jaldare.