Hauke watched in stunned silence from within the prison of his own mind as Nyrielle laid out a history of his people that he had never heard, even from the ancestors who had dwelled within his mind.
From Ansgar, he had heard of the era of Seven Peaks when the Frost Walkers ruled not just the High Pass but Airgead Mountain and several other nearby mountains whose summits rose above the clouds. In that era, Ansgar hadn't been the Lord of High Pass but the High Lord of Seven Peaks and Frost Walkers held power for nearly the entire length of the eastern mountains.
Each generation after that dwindled as the ice and snow of the glaciers retreated and by the time Kimsel ruled, only the High Pass remained within the Frost Walker's domain. This was the history that they'd shared with him but they said nothing of an age of ice before, nor of a vampire breaking their bloodline!
