The Intimacy of a Warm Genocide

The Power of Creation forgotten.

Banishment and Love avenged.

Billions sacrificed.

A traumatized General Whiptide, leader of the Children of the White Cloth, extracted the spikes crucifying his lover, Mooncross, and cradled her in his arms. But in his despair, he witnesses unforeseen terrors and is changed in a way that should have been a warning to us all.

No one listened.

For the next thousand years, battling from the ice tower on Binan Ath to Earth, generations of Flyers of the Black Wing and Children of the White Cloth fight and die.

Until now.

An unnatural catastrophe befalls the Children—the Flyers kill Colonel Cyclone with his own ability of Sound, and the newest Child decides the only way to save the world is to commit the ultimate betrayal.

‘Elsewhere, in the Scottish highlands, the beautiful but broken Whiteslayer is in a self-imposed exile, atoning for murdering her older brother 117 years ago. She leaves her crumbling shack and heads out for her annual suicide attempt. Fire, steel, water. All failed. Maybe this year she’ll be allowed to die.

What General Whiptide began, only Whiteslayer can finish—before her brother returns and Flyers butcher millions in the Victory Slaughter.