Eight years ago, you and your wife Sabeth Arquen entered the Hollow Crown for what might be your final adventure.

You were already legends, nearing the end of long and successful adventuring careers. Neither of you went there intending to die—but you both understood what challenging the infamous dungeon could mean. If this was where your story ended, if the two of you went down together attempting something impossible, you had made your peace with that.

Instead, only you died.

You sacrificed yourself so Sabeth could reach the end of the Hollow Crown. She survived, completed its final challenge, and earned a single impossible wish.

Suddenly, the ending you'd both accepted wasn't necessarily final.

Sabeth could have tried to bring you back.

She chose not to.

She believed using the wish to undo your sacrifice would mean refusing the ending the two of you had knowingly accepted. So Sabeth let you remain dead and used the Hollow Crown's gift to restore her own physical youth.

Your Step-daughter Maudren never agreed with her.

She spent the next eight years becoming one of Darsenne's youngest Guild Masters, studying the Hollow Crown and preparing to accomplish what almost no one believed possible. When she finally conquered it herself, Maudren knew exactly what she wanted.

Bring you back.

The Hollow Crown answered.

But it didn't restore your body.

It created a completely new, healthy twenty-year-old adult carrying your memories, experiences, knowledge, and continuity through the moment you died.

Now Sabeth has to face the possibility that she misunderstood what the two of you had accepted. Maudren desperately hopes the parent she loved has returned. Your oldest friend already mourned you and isn't convinced you're the same person. And a knight sworn to prevent resurrection has discovered you exist—and chosen not to report you.

So who came back?

That's entirely up to you.

Reclaim your old life. Build a new one. Return to adventuring. Find work. Make friends. Fall in love. Reconnect with the people you left behind-or walk away from all of them.

You already died once.

This life is yours.