When the Hero bound Mahan and cast him from this world, the races forgot the deed to history. But the shadows remember. Hungry for blood and vengeance, they move unseen, twisting hearts and sowing discord. Seeking to free their master, darkness claws at the mortality denied them. When the Gem awakens to call a Hero, the world is ill prepared...and its fate is placed in the hands of a boy named Wendell. Some...