Before the rise of the Devouring God, there was a knight, a mage, and a monster problem.

Set in the shadowed years before Rise of the Devouring God, this prequel chronicles the unlikely first adventure of two future legends. Alexander is a hardened knight and master of mystical beast hunting—disciplined, deadly, and very tired of other people’s nonsense. Merlin is a mage of considerable ambition, questionable usefulness, and a gift for getting on Alexander’s nerves.

When a pack of ravenous were-creatures begins terrorizing the borderlands, the two are forced into an uneasy alliance. The mission is simple: find the monsters, kill the monsters, try not to kill each other in the process.

Steel and sorcery will be tested. Secrets will be unearthed. And the seeds of a legendary rivalry will take root—laced with blood, magic, and more than a few sarcastic remarks.