Pact of Deliverance: Scars (Volume 1)

Deep within the hidden core of the "World Temple", an ancient prophecy is chiselled in stone - it predicts the beginning of a journey to do... something. Quite what is unclear, but it certainly relates to a group of young inhabitants of the survivors' village of Ghirina, which stands as a small defiant remnant of a kingdom that was obliterated in the so-called "Final War" 60 years earlier. None of them are aware of the prophecy, their relevance to it, or even to the existence of the temple: their only concern is the removal of a vicious, demented old man that has ruled their village for the last 40 years. Somehow, the fates must contrive their paths to cross with the World Temple and their vague, uncertain destiny: but will their immediate concerns allow them to live long enough to follow the prophetic words of the past?