Beyond the Ash — The World Zoltraak Saw

In the red earth wastes of the Trammel Wastes, the demon village of Tuurya was small, quiet, and utterly unknown to the world beyond its hill. Fourteen-year-old Ashna Vilhelm lived an ordinary life there—reading forbidden human books, learning the sacred art of memory-telling, surrounded by forty-one people she loved. Then the Hero came. In the name of the Holy Staff Clergy's doctrine, which brands all demons as filth to be purged, a single morning's "purification" reduces Tuurya to ash and si