Publisher's Synopsis
An ancient Prophecy foretold that the Misted Veil protecting the Faewild from the Material Plane would become porous enough for monsters and mortals to pass between the worlds, bringing chaos and destruction to all. The Prophecy said a Champion that was not a blood-born Fae, but an "Outsider from Within," would protect the borders and maintain the Misted Veil. At the end of the Taulirian War, Naiad Guardians rescued a orphaned newborn ogreling from certain death. The foundling was delivered to three forest dwarves, to be raised in secret and learn the ways of the Fae. For centuries, the Faewild Queen had searched for a halfling worthy or capable, without success. Could this ogreling possibly be the "Outsider from Within" and save both realms?
In Book One, the young ogre Ymir must survive the initial Faewild Rites of Passage of the "Little Death" by partaking of the Faerie's Breath Mushroom to be spiritually reborn a Fae. He must confront the monster within to surrender and embrace both his natural and spiritual self, to be his Whole Self, and achieve the eventual Freeing of Self. This accomplishment is not easy. His training begins very early, and with thousands of failures. It is with his success that he earns the right to be trained as a Guardian of the Faewild, to serve and protect the Realm. Trained in the spiritual path of the Forest Dwarves and eventually the Five Fae Elementals, he must be ready to face the impossible: cross through the Mountain's Misted Veil that has been insurmountable for every other Monster to become the Guardian of the Faewild in order to protect the borderlands of the Realm from being breached by monster or mortal.
