Meet the Company — Aelwyn & Bromrik

Every trilogy has a moment where the story stops being one man's story. For Kael, that moment is Book Three. The Veil is larger than he is. The road down into the House is longer than any blade. And so — for the first time since the night he walked out of the Crimson Veil fortress — he has to let people help him. Two of them will change the shape of this book. — ⬥ AELWYN Aelwyn lives beneath ancient roots, in a hollow that a hundred generations of grief have hollowed out around her. She has lost people to the Veil that Kael will never be able to name to her face. She fights the way an elf fights when there is nothing left to keep in reserve. She does not like Kael. She does not need to. She only needs him to be sharp enough to walk the road she has been waiting to walk for two centuries. ⬥ BROMRIK Bromrik lives in a shelter cut into the flank of a ridge, reinforced with the kind of timber that says its owner has never been comfortable behind a door. He is a stone-worker. He is a father who has already buried his only son. He is the only dwarf in Stonebridge who still remembers how to say the Veil's name out loud. He knows a way down. He also knows what waits at the bottom. — These are not sidekicks. They are people the Veil has already broken once, showing up to break it back. If Book One was about a weapon learning it was a person, Book Three is about that person learning he does not have to carry the fight alone. The Crimson Veil releases October 5. Preorders are open.