It has been 367 years since the founding of the Trotzen capital at Eragdush.

  For nearly four centuries, the Trotzen had steadily expanded their influence across the world of Serinor. Their outward march proved unstoppable, even when opposed by the might of the ancient dragons that had long called the fledgling world their home. Though hundreds of orcs might die to destroy a single hatchery, the relative loss to the dragons was far greater.

  Until the dragons discovered how to create wyrmkin.

  The tides turned almost overnight. Driven back to their swampy homeland, the Trotzen faced both dragons at the gates and traitors in their midst. But one orc, Gretchen Hilgard, whose name will ring in the Song for centuries, harnessed the raw, arcane energies dormant throughout Serinor for the first time in history to unite the orcs and ravage the dragons.

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  It will forever be known as the Arcane Dawn.

  But dawn casts a shadow. Syn, the Eternal Nightmare, god of darkness and destruction, had given its blessing to the Trotzen and aided them against its own monstrous children. The Dawn has come, but so has Syn, and tribute is due. The very orc that Syn had blessed must fight for life, for sanity, for a place in history, or fade forever into the shadowy void of oblivion.

  This is the story of the Dawnshadow.