Introduction: To Valhera the Undying, it is plain that she stands at the end of the world.  Sickness and famine spread far and wide, once-placid valleys are wracked by vicious storms, and the dead do not remain in their graves.  Nonetheless, she is desperate to find some peace before her inevitable end... whether that be one last act of vengeance, or the telling of her long and harrowing tale.Born and raised among humans in Elthysia, she lived her entire life as an outsider: as a direling, her horns and tail could mark her as nothing less.  When tragedy strikes and she is given no recourse but to travel to her ancestral home of Khaldara, she finds a world where she need not hide away, even among rampant ruin and death.  She discovers friendship where she had expected scorn, respect where grudges had previously grown, and love of a kind she had not thought herself worthy... just in time to confront the dark clouds that loom....