The night the star fell
Three lights keep the valley safe: the Beacon on the meadow hill, the Bell beneath the roots of the wood, and the Star above the summit. Nobody alive remembers why they were lit.
Then a star falls out of the sky, and the lights begin to go out. Master Orrin walks into the dark with his lantern and does not come back. Creatures stir in the tall grass, and a shadow older than the valley starts to wake.
Its name is Umbra, the Eclipse. It wears the shape of whatever you fear the most, so no two heroes meet the same guardians, and none of them walk the same road.
Four chapters · five heroes · twenty-five guardians