Exiled at eight. Chained by eleven. By eighteen, he no longer begged.

In the shadow of wolves and warlords, Taranis Stormborne learns to survive the long, brutal silence of exile. Once cast out by his own kin, now bound by the Black Claw clan, he carries scars no fire can burn away but within him still flickers a flame not yet quenched.

“They called me cursed. The wolves knew better.”