Years later they would call it 'the Collapse' - the beginning of the end, but, regardless, Barid Bel Medar is determined to do his duty to the Hall of the Servants and to the people and hunt down a growing conspiracy that former teacher and current diplomat Ared Mosinel appears to be at the heart of. The world is poised on the brink of war - its first in millennia - but Barid Bel knows war and in war, as in statecraft, one needs insider knowledge. And there is no better place to gain knowledge than at the Academy of the Power, with a visit to his favourite mentor Tamira Sedai...

Part of the Legends of the Fall series - my take on a canon version of the Collapse. For anyone who wants a view on the Age of Legends culture and Barid Bel/Demandred as he could have been long before becoming Forsaken himself.

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