Children Beneath the Ice

The inherited war begins.

Centuries after one man fled the old gods with a truth the North wanted forgotten, his descendants inherit a hidden war against powers humanity still remembers as divine.

In the early Rus, Soren Varric and the people beside him have been raised inside that inheritance: trained to recognize the marks left when stories become weapons and ancient beings reach through belief into the human world.

What begins as a mission on the edge of that hidden conflict forces them toward an older horror—and toward evidence that the rules their people inherited may not be as certain as generations have believed.