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Obedience. Endurance. Perseverance. Three that help create empires, or dismantle them. Three that help build families, or split them. Three that help forge alliances, or break them.The successive reigns of the First and Second Kalifates had once brought people from three continents together. The Second Trial had capped it, serving as a grim reminder of the past and a broken mirror into the future while sowing seeds of distrust and discord.The values, however, were yet to be abandoned.A people, the Albinons of the Sunset Lands, had incurred heavy losses during the Second Trial, and had decided to try and reforge their place... and they vow to either fulfill this long-cherished dream, or be martyrs to it.Of these, House Hospodia of the central Sunset Lands sets as its goal the unity and peace their ancestors had once experienced under the Second Kalifate; and their aspirations are currently personified in their second amir Ingeras--calm and sharp as ice--and his prime general Urdin, renowned for his fierce and unbending loyalty to the cause.Their relationships--siblings as they are--shall help to determine whether their House will rise like no other or fade into oblivion.From the sand-coated, gale-infested coasts of The Sunset Lands to the misty mountains bordering the Vikrish Peninsula and the uncharted lands beyond, immerse in House Hospodia's memorable journey: its advances and setbacks, the highs and lows of its rulers, and their differing takes on how to achieve the ultimate vision; as well as many smaller others no less dear to all.…