Tradition. Status. Two words that resonate in the daily lives of the noble gryphons, high and low. For hundreds of years, the hierarchy has reigned supreme, from family, clan, to state. This is how it has been, how it is, and how it will remain.

However...

In the century before the return of Nightmare Moon, Tor Razorwing, aristocratic senator of the Confederacy of the Gryphons, commits an act of kindness that breaks social barriers, and unknowingly strikes upon the foundation of a fragile social order. Between the duties of the upper class to uphold tradition and the need to pursue the freedom of his people, a crisis boils beneath a facade of righteousness and order.

Tor’s world balances on the tip of an upturned mountain - Will it right itself back into the seat of stability? Or will it tumble, and with it, break into a world that dares to find new meaning?