War with the humans was inevitable.

It was as certain as if the cadence of a hundred thousand human feet already trampled the forest's undergrowth, axe-felled and torch-burned trees marking their passage.

And still the elves of Aer'ferala remained divided; the pacifist ice elves unwilling to leave their hidden villages in the frozen north, the exiled moon elves showing no interest in burying their long-festering grudge against their sun elf cousins. Only the wild elves stand against the rising tide of humanity, and when their thin wall of resistance...

This is not a stand-alone book; it is the continuation of a tale begun in Part One, "Three Threads." I highly recommend that you read "Three Threads" before reading further.

An exile in the land of enemies.

Having fled from an assassination attempt on her life with little more than the clothes on her back, the young moon elf Silvantana finds herself lost on the Surface--an alien sunlit world of trees and birds and strange animals populated by peoples who would slay her on sight for the color of her skin. Her only companion is a persistent...

861 years have passed since the Origin.

Silvantana is a bright, well-read young moon elf. Throughout her tale what she knows or discovers of her people's history and famous figures she happily relates for us, but she cannot know the full depth of their stories and interrelationships.

Through this companion volume to her tale, we can.

"VIGNETTES I" is a collection of twenty-four short stories told from the perspectives of the prominent, even legendary, figures of Silvantana's world; each tale paired with an illustration depicting a person or place featured in that...