They took his wife. They took his children. Now the gods will know what it means to bleed.Hildingr was once a man of honor. Now he's something else entirely-a warrior haunted by the screams of his past and driven by the quiet, cold promise of vengeance.But the path forward is tangled in prophecy and ruin. A seer speaks in riddles. A golden staff hums with forgotten power. And the faces of his friends no longer seem certain.As old gods rise and new monsters crawl from the edges of the world, Hildingr must choose: cling to the man he was-or become the storm the gods cannot control.In a world where silence hides secrets and fate is a sharpened blade, only one truth remains: The gods play their games-Hildingr plays for keeps.