The Falls of Leod

Before he became King of Light, Leod was only a frightened boy standing at the edge of a waterfall. On the day of his sixteenth birthday, Prince Leod must face the sacred rite that has tested every heir of the House of Light for generations. Before the watching nobles of Obsidia's five royal families, he is expected to leap from the highest ledge of the Falls of Leod and prove that his bloodline remains worthy of the throne. But Leod knows the truth beneath the ceremony. This is not courage. This is tradition sharpened into a blade. With his forbidden love Chloena watching from below, promised to another man for the sake of political alliance, Leod steps from the ledge and falls into the roar of the sacred waters. What waits beneath is not blessing, nor miracle, nor the approval of the gods. It is something older. Something wounded. Something that remembers what the royal families stole. Dragged into the depths, Leod awakens a shadow buried beneath the falls, a living darkness bound to the heart of Obsidia itself. It shows him the lie at the centre of his world: that the powers of Light, Dark, Earth, Wind and Fire were never gifted to the royal bloodlines. They were taken. And now, the ancient force beneath the water has begun to stir. The Falls of Leod is a dark fantasy tale of forbidden love, inherited power and the moment a kingdom's greatest myth begins to crack.