Kadara

The ride that drags the whole Southern Continent into the war starts the softest way it could: a prince offering a captain a seat on his eagle at dawn.

Kadara — Prince Sartaq's ruk, the great eagle who carries the rukhin's heir through a spider-trap, a burning fells, and every battle that brings the khaganate into the fight.

At a glance

WHAT: Prince Sartaq's ruk — a giant eagle war-mount
CARRIES: Two riders at once
FIRST FLIGHT: Sartaq and Nesryn, dawn over Antica
SURVIVED: The spider-web trap at Dagul Fells
FLIES FOR: The rukhin, against the Ironteeth wyverns

Her people

Who she chose.

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Sartaq secondarySartaqbondedEnter Sartaq →

Also in the story

Connected

Allies, rivals and enemies — the ones this story crossed.

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What she loves

What the sky is for.

She was never built to be gentle, and she has never once wished she were.

Her rider
Sartaq on her back — the rider she chose, a trust you earn the hard way or not at all.
The high cold
The thin air above the mountains, where the only thing left over her head is more sky.
The hunt
Something small and moving far below, and the long, patient fall that reaches it.
Full wings
Wind under a span wide enough to darken the ground, and the whole world tilting to let her through.

Her heart

Sartaq

The prince she chose and carries — into the high sky, into the wind, into the fight. She'll take him where no ruk has any business going and bring him home. A stranger's hand gets talons; his gets the sky.

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