Just because you're chosen, doesn't mean you want to be! 

Nicolas Percival Carnegie went from never having picked up a sword to feeling naked without one on his hip.

But then, his sword, The Dawn Blade, is a special one.

And apparently, it’s more special than anyone realised.

It may, in fact, be a very powerful weapon in the fight against the Maestro.

But the princess who holds the key to unlocking its secret has been captured, and to rescue her, Nicolas and his companions must journey to one of the most dangerous places they have ever visited.

Which, by their standards, is saying a lot.

Finding himself trapped in a cursed citadel with enemies and monsters around every corner, Nicolas’s sanity will face its toughest test yet.

And it’s usually only so-so at the best of times.

One powerful, and very large family of them, anyway.

Nicolas has had the displeasure of facing two of these fiends on his travels already, barely surviving each encounter. And with the revelation that his kidnapped people are prisoners in the fauns’ lair, he’s about to face many more.

Setting out with a very unlikely ally, Nicolas must undertake a perilous journey across Etherius to finally save the people of Hablock and put an end to this family’s devastation once and for all.

It won’t be an easy task. The enemy knows all kinds of magic…and they have their Mother—who, judging by her children, is not the most nurturing of parents.

She is waiting for Nicolas in the Vault, where he will find one of two things; his people, or a very bloody end.