About a century after the events in Child of the Kaites, Irellia the Night Walker was born blind—in other words, cursed, according to her people.With enemies approaching and her sister about to give birth, Irellia must confront her deepest shame in order to find the help her people desperately need."Irellia the Night Walker" is the fifth story in The Firstborn's Legacy saga and the third story in the Steward Stories subseries.

In the decade since Tiran received a Sword of Champions, he feels like he's figured out what it means to be Swordbearer. He travels around the peninsula for most of the year settling disputes among Maraians and protecting them from the violent nations surrounding them. Usually Nihal, the other Swordbearer, travels with him.A missionto defend a city from the giant Aimarines starts exactly as Tiran would expect, but then he finds himself facing a new kind of opposition. This oppositi...

What was there in life, if not an endless wrestling against an unconquerable foe?All his life, Lewka has been fighting to keep Jennoevre alive and her faith strong. He will do anything for his sister, even if it means losing his soul.Whatever it takes, Lewka can do it: Sell himself into slavery, becoming a fugitive, stealing, lying—and worse.He has to protect her. No one else will. Especially not some distant Creator who never spared two Coarnomite ...