This series of stories continues as a parallel storyline of the events of the novel “The Eternal Battle: Rising of the Black Moon” and is located within the framework of the “Eternal Battle” universe. Doran’s Notes. Note one: scorched earth. The first story in the series. Dorans are elves ritually expelled from their home world in order to avoid its overpopulation by the ever-living. The cruel ritual deprives them of the peace of their past life, but makes them stronger. However, in the hour of mortal danger, the exiles, violating the dictates of long-standing traditions, return to their native Allin-Lirr. And now the moment has come: hordes of demons, at the wave of the finger of their King, fall upon the serene cradle of Life in search of its source. Doran, named Nuallan, returns to his homeland under the banner of King Aedan the Bright-Eyed, an elf from the ruling Mehar family who suffered the same fate as exiles. But victory under the walls of Eltwillan is only the beginning of the path to liberation from the yoke of the damned. Nuallan sets off with a detachment of scouts, looking for traces of a family caught in the very epicenter of a terrible war, and so begins his difficult journey through the scorched native land...