The Hurricane Wars

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of violence.

A man hears a girl’s magic from across the battlefield, like a golden hum. He follows the sound across the carnage of the fighting and finds the girl. He lunges at her.

Talasyn attends the wedding of her friend and fellow helmsman Khaede and her partner Sol. Given the continuing Hurricane Wars ravaging Sardovia, it’s challenging to find an officiant while the clerics tend to wounded soldiers. The officiant that Khaede and Sol found is an older man who fumbles through the ceremony, but Talasyn thinks Khaede and Sol’s love still makes the ceremony beautiful. Her commanding officer Darius asks if she’s next down the aisle, but Talasyn has no present hopes for romance. Darius tells her that the Amirante Ideth Vela, head of the Sardovian forces, wants to meet with her. General Bieshimma has returned from the Nenavar Dominion, a kingdom across the Eversea that claims to possess dragons and remains isolated from the conflict in Sardovia. Talasyn feels a strange connection to Nenavar that she does not understand, a yearning for something she cannot place her finger on. She also has a strange vision of a dragon’s scales.