Nible's Hand - A prelude to Nightfall's Edge

A young Trikan, named Cearkrosh rises against his ungrateful father, and his future empire. Because his dreams of freedom, his dreams of a empire greater. Rather than be a complacent child like the rest of his kin, he decides to be something greater than the same.

The Trikan faces fearful dangerous even as a child, and eventually leads to the confrontation of a future emperor, the general that was a terror of the world, bore Cearkrosh a savior of his people.