When winter comes to the continent, the Sun Family of Giran passes its power to the Night family of Gailech, the Kings of Night who rule the land in the horrors of Winter, when the crops die and monsters come out and seek to bring nothing but death to the land. Charged with defending the people from these horrors, are an ancient brotherhood of warriors who swore an oath to see the land of Man to the Spring again. The Winter Hunters. Cailean is a young Winter Hunter in his first season, a boy who was never meant to take the oath, After he is visited by a Goddess of war and told his destiny is to die in an epic battle in the fight for the spring, he finds himself protecting the last scion of the Sun Blood, and the only hope to see the sun rise again.