n the outskirts of the village of Valdor, where t...

On the outskirts of the village of Valdor, where the forests were dense and the mountains whispered ancient secrets, lived a boy named Kael. He was not the son of a nobleman, nor the heir to a great house. He was the son of a carpenter who had died in a battle with a dragon in the north, and of a mother who raised him lovingly, though without much money