The Speakers

Jahir and Khamin are two childhood friends growing into young men in a village on the outskirts of Lalosia, a powerful empire that rules the lands surrounding its central fortress, Kirobos. Law of the empire reigns supreme and in this merciless tyranny, young men are taken from their families at the age of fourteen and enlisted in one of five clans. These five clans make up all that is the Lalosian empire. As a result Jahir and Khamin are seperated at the festival of the clans. Khamin is assimilated into the brutally militant fire clan to be trained as a soldier. Jahir however is rejected by all five clans and discarded by the empire. This leads him straight to Vertius, a Speaker. From similar upbringings, the two young men experience two very different adventures that take them through dungeons, romances and wars. One faces the meaning of manhood, its place in society and freedom. The other experiences the harshness of existence, the essence of one's self and the conceptualities that define reality itself.