The world is about to be turned upside down. Not physically. The south won't become north, and the north won't become south. But there will be war. There will be a disruption of power in one empire, and the appropriation of an army in the other. Forbidden loves arise, and marriages fall. The Ancients, the Old Ones, though one is not so old at all, are stirring. Something singularly focuses Arkhaios on forcing the Living Gods to ascend. To themselves...