Description
When Eldárien returns to his homeland after many years away—burdened by the awareness that he has perpetrated great evil at the hands of an Empire whose knight he has become—he encounters a continent riven by strife and war, and indeed threatened by creatures even more horrifying, born of the very darkness itself. Though he yearns to lay aside the sword, to leave behind a past marked with violence and bloodshed, he also longs to aid his people against the forces that endanger their very existence.
Elmáriyë, a young woman with the heart of a child, has left her home to join the temple of the mother-goddess and to seek the meaning of what she feels alive within her, of the way that she bears the pain and the joy of others as if it were her own. And yet shortly after her profession, two mysterious strangers arrive in the city where she resides, and they bring to the grandmaster of her order news of dire conflict and death that comes upon the people of Telmérion like a tidal wave at sea.
The path of resistance against the forces of violence and darkness is one that they cannot walk alone, and as these frail yet loving, broken yet beauteous hearts face obstacles both within and without, they find both light entrust to them and friends to walk at their side, in a deeper communion and joining of hearts than any of them have yet known. All the while, the land that they so deeply love slides inexorably into conflict, into what shall be known henceforth as the War of Darkness, and Eldárien, Elmáriyë, and those to whom they are joined are called upon to share the fate of their people, looking forward in hope to the promised coming of dawn after darkest night.
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Throughout time, myth has been one of the fundamental activities of the human heart as it seeks to contemplate and understand the mystery of reality, to find a path through the fabric of history as its tapestry is ever woven, a path that unveils meaning in the enigmas of life and gives sense and stability to the drama of existence. But especially, the reality of myth, of imaginative sub-creation, is born of a primal wonder before the awesome miracle of being, and of the fundamental human activity which is play, and it serves to keep this wonder and play alive always. In precisely this way it has been, and shall always be, a catalyst to enkindle and deepen the longing in the heart of each one of us for redemption—for a new and better world, a world where righteousness and happiness dwell, and all is freedom and purpose, unity and harmony, ecstatic delight and true adventure.
To such does Dawnbringer humbly aspire as it steps into the flowing current of thought and imagination as it surges on through history, seeking to offer, in passionately and lovingly woven narrative, a glimpse of the light that shines upon us all, and of the conflict that resides at the center of every life, that the weak again may be strong and the child again may be king.
