The ice goddess Vira seals her divinity and walks the mortal realm as Ella. She saves young King Leander from assassination, freezes an enemy fleet of three hundred warships, and weds him beneath the northern lights. On their wedding night, Leander—his mind poisoned since childhood by the shadow demon Celine—plunges a cursed dagger into her heart and casts her body into the eternal ice. An ancient dragon awakens beneath the frozen wastes. Reforged in dragon blood and agony, Vira rises anew. Meanwhile, Celine steals Ella's face, infiltrates the palace, feeds on the king's blood, and turns the capital into a sacrificial altar. Vira marches south with an army of three thousand crystalline dead. On the shattered palace roof, she faces her twin sister—not with vengeance, but with an impossible act of mercy: giving half her divine essence to redeem a thousand years of hatred.
