The Trilogy of Fading Splendor

They were heaven's chosen, the earth's darlings, holding life and death in their hands and enjoying all the world's splendor, yet unable to escape their fated ends. When he awoke from his dream, he would have given up the whole world in exchange for his younger brother's lifelong safety and peace, but it was already too late. With no tears left to shed, he would have spent his life wishing his beloved happiness, but fate had other plans. In this vast world of human life, the snow falls away. How many memories of the past have been forgotten? A wooden figurine held close in the hands, a faint ache seeping into the heart, with no knowing for whom.