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David Filoni (born June 7, 1974) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter currently serving as the chief creative officer of Lucasfilm. He directed multiple episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender before being hired by George Lucas to oversee direction on the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as well as directing and writing numerous episodes, including its theatrical film. He was the creator of the follow-up series Star Wars Rebels and served as a supervising director, executive producer, and writer. Filoni is the creator, executive producer, and sole writer of the live-action miniseries Ahsoka and is an executive producer on The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Skeleton Crew. Filoni is also the creator and executive producer of the animated series Star Wars Resistance, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Tales of the Jedi, and an executive producer of the web series Star Wars Forces of Destiny. Filoni is an executive vice president at Lucasfilm and in 2023 accepted a promotion to chief creative officer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dave Filoni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The trilogy primarily takes place in the fictional kingdom of Adro, one of the Nine Kingdoms founded by Kresimir, a semi-mythical figure now worshiped as a deity. At the beginning of Promise of Blood, Field Marshal Tamas has just committed a coup d'etat against Adro's corrupt and ineffective monarchy. The novel then focuses on the efforts of three men and one woman – Tamas, his son Taniel, a soldier, and former police inspector Adamat, as well as the laundress Nila – in the aftermath of the coup, dealing with conspiracies by royalist supporters, war with Adro's neighbors, and an emerging scheme to "summon" Kresimir
