“If the gods will not help me, then I will do it alone. ”These were the words Aleline Ernath used to repeat to herself every day.

The gods had never helped her: she lost everything that was dearest to her, and the images of that day took root,full of hatred, in her heart. The gods were no longer benevolent afterwards: she got married – an arranged marriage – to the most powerfuland brutal man in the Five Kingdoms, the instigator of her suffering.

In other circumstances, she would have allowed herself to dream of a quiet life under the foliage of mighty trees,far from the court and its intrigues, in the arms of a caring lover, far from hatred, but her destiny had alreadybeen written and did not mention any of her desires. Finally, the gods rested their gaze upon her.

They gave her the possibility to take revenge: an immense power destined for a few Chosen Ones and peoplewilling to support her cause. But everything has a cost: could the act of giving power to a weak and unprepared person be considered a truegift? That seemed just another treacherous game of the gods.

. .