Here follows the account of the Year of the Burning Light, in which the dominance of the Light as the one true faith in Fastheld was wounded and weakened by the machinations of the Shadow, and a failure by the Church that spead that faith to reassure a a population that looked to it for guidance and safety. It was the year in which Alieron Mikin plotted to overthrow the Throne held by Emperor Talus Kahar XIV for his dealings with the Luminary in an attempt to protect the people of Fastheld by using a lesser evil to overcome a greater one.