“If she is here, Nockrythiam might follow.” “Nockrythiam?” I asked, feeling as if the wind had been knocked out of me. There wasn’t a soul alive who hadn’t heard that legendary name, regardless of how hard the empress tried to erase it. He was the greatest fighter in all of the lands, the bringer of death, and the last defender of Emperor Alaric. The Ender of Realms.
