Pursued by an inexorable enemy and burdened by the crushing weight of inescapable destiny, Islena Doraux finds sanctuary in the Western Continent, carrying the antiquated world's slim hopes on her shoulders. Myrhia's relentless evil will not be denied and soon Islena's false sanctuary crumbles. In a desperate and audacious gambit to halt the Emercian Queen's juggernaut of relentless conquest, The CornerStone Nations divert the Hiberas River...a barrier that separates the Land of Shades from the realms of men. Islena is soon forced to flee into the fabled Land of Shades in search of a legendary king who may possess knowledge of the remaining two Proclamations. There, faced with horrors that defy all reason, Islena gropes towards acceptance of her true nature and the role she is fated to play in a drama that has been enacted across a thousand worlds since the first moment of creation. Yet to travel the path to epiphany, she must suffer her moment of abjection along the road to apotheosis.