The Banner of Ash

The Vale was meant to test him. The Inquisitor was meant to guide him. But the heretic knight shows Caelin another path. As Banner-Bearer of the Flame, Caelin Valor swore to march into the cursed Vale and return with its horrors burned away. Instead, he finds silence where his god should be - and whispers of truth from Seren, the Order's most hated traitor. When High Inquisitor Maevan demands obedience, Caelin raises steel against him.
Now branded heretic, carrying the banner like a chain, Caelin must choose between faith and freedom, between oath and choice. But the Vale remembers what the Flame erases. And it whispers one name: Betrayer.