Introduction: Five years of rigorous training. Of enduring the blistering cold and torment. Pushing his body to its limits. The Trials had finally arrived. Deep in the mountains, a sequestered sect of warriors, known as the Jeurlin monks, lie hidden on the snow-capped Mount Kumu. Mahi, a Jeurlin student, after being torn from his family, faces the Trials that will earn him his Krane: the mark of a fully fledged Jeurlin monk. The Trials are perilous, pushing the body, the mind and the soul to their worldly limits. But for Mahi, the last Synaesthesian, the Trials are different. Different... and deadly....