Four hundred years have passed since the War of the Unification ended and the year was set to nought. Ten Great Houses have ruled the Banner-lands ever since — the present year is 396 A.U. — and each of them is less a family than a philosophy of leadership: a wager about what people are, and what they can be asked to become.
The founding pact, the Ash Oath, bears ten seals — some say eleven.
The question these books ask is never which house is good. It is: which house would you follow?
EMBERWOLD — BOOK ONE
THE BELL OF SILENCE
In the high silent valleys, a goatherd hears a voice. House Whitehart exists to test those who claim to hear.
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The name
Ember — the glow that survives a fire. Wold — an old word for open land, which sounds almost like world. The ember-land that sounds like the ember-world: a realm named for what the fire left behind.
