Lord Stormsong was the seventh successor to the Storm Temple.
Before stepping down, every Tidesage elder had warned his successor never to listen to the whispers beneath the tides.
They must always stand in awe of the power bestowed by the sea.
Lord Stormsong was not a man who enjoyed breaking rules. In this land, whose history was not particularly long, poverty and desolation had once defined Stormsong Valley.
As a leader, Stormsong had done many things that fell outside the duties of the Tidal Conclave's leader.
Strictly speaking, before Lord Stormsong's tenure, Stormsong Valley had always been under the jurisdiction of Daelin Fortress.
Because it was so far from Boralus, the Proudmoore family had struggled to exercise any real control.
A family inept at developing the economy had left the common people of Stormsong Valley struggling to get by.
The young Lord Stormsong had refused to accept the status quo.
As a child, Lord Stormsong had traveled throughout the valley with his father. His ambitions had extended beyond inheriting the old Storm Temple.
Perhaps driven by a desire for power and territory, Lord Stormsong had ousted the leader of Daelin Fortress.
The price had been nothing more than the bodies of two young, beautiful Tidesages.
Lord Stormsong had inherited his family's seat on the Family Council and successfully taken actual control of Stormsong Valley from the council.
To restore his languishing family to prominence.
And pit himself against the other members of the Family Council, Lord Stormsong had single-handedly broken the traditions laid down by generations of Tidesage elders.
The production of wind runes had begun to spread, no longer confined to the temple's harbor.
For a time, the traditional wind rune industry had revitalized the entire House Stormsong.
With that initial capital and steep tax revenues, House Stormsong