The Zander Sword PROLOGUE

PROLOGUE 𝒜nd it came to pass in a land torn by war, that a master of shadows arose, a keeper of strings and a breaker of hope. He clothed himself in darkness and stretched forth his hand over a realm, saying, This shall be mine. And he encompassed it with a veil, a wall of gloom and sorrow, and the name thereof was Shadowveil. It stretched from horizon to horizon, blanketing all the known lands beneath, so that none might know the sky in its fullness, nor know the world that lay beyond.