Jinx Stark, the younger twin brother of Eddard Stark, has spent most of his life being dismissed as the great disappointment of House Stark. Where Eddard is honorable, disciplined, and dependable, Jinx is seen as lazy, shameless, and far more interested in wine, women, and avoiding responsibility than becoming the man his name demands. Even his younger sister Lyanna is often said to possess ten times the courage and spirit Jinx was supposed to have.
Yet the man the North mocks is nothing more than a carefully maintained mask.
Jinx is a reincarnator born with the terrifying potential and endless hunger of what Darth Nihilus might have become had he mastered the darkness within him rather than being consumed by it. He possesses the natural dueling talent of Anakin Skywalker, strange knowledge carried over from another life, a mysterious book of forgotten magic, and several other gifts he has spent years hiding from his family and the watching eyes of Westeros.
When rumors of a lost Valyrian sword lead Jinx to join an expedition beyond the Wall, he expects little more than frozen ruins, dead men, and perhaps a weapon worthy of the danger. Instead, buried beneath the ancient ice, he discovers something that should not exist—something untouched since an age the maesters barely remember and the oldest legends refuse to name.
That discovery forces Jinx to reveal pieces of the man he truly is, awakening powers and enemies that have slept since before the Long Night. From that moment forward, the fate of House Stark, the Seven Kingdoms, and the entire world of ice and fire begins to change forever.