Description

For 500 years the Children of the valkyrie, einherjar and Light, have resided together within the North of Valdyrgard. They were delivered out-of the Ocean, each having a glowing gem blade in their palm; they're Angels of Light-Created in the forming of a brand new world.  But three came before them, in the death-throes of the old world, Midgard: the world-girdling Snake, Bearer of Problems;  the Hair Fenris, eater of sunlight, who today takes the shape of an einherjar; and his devil sibling, stealer of souls.The Kids spend their times eating, fighting, hunting, and protecting their individual costs. But one terrible day a female is cleaned up in the ocean, a Girl who's no human, although she's not valkyrie either. Thus starts the splitting of the Kids of the Light, the discoloration of the energy, and the demise of Valdyrgard.By the Hill Bound is a prequel to Elizabeth Bear’s highly-acclaimed All of the Windwracked Superstars, and informs the unpleasant story of love and infidelity, sorcery and fight, that brought up to the day when Muire was left alone in the snowfall at the conclusion of the planet.