After the bloody battle of Colden Moor the warlike highlanders had lost their independence. They lived in surly subservience to the Outlanders, and only a teenage girl survived to represent the line of kings: Sigarni.
Sigarni the silver-haired. Huntress, princess. All of these she was called. But those who pierce the veil of the future knew that a leader was coming to the North – a leader descended from Ironhand, mightiest of the highland kings.
