In a city blissfully blind to the truth, an old horror wears a smile no one questions.
And while the court dances through alliances and betrayals, a hidden servant of something older than thrones begins her work—subtly selecting four lives for a purpose no crown could name.
Pencheval the Hordebreaker returns from war only to be scorned by his own guild. A spy arrives to protect a relic from a hungry high priest, unaware a darker power shelters the priest’s rise. A mercenary takes a simple contract and finds himself guarding a woman stalked by something no blade can kill. And a scholar of forbidden myths realizes the god he studied is no longer confined to legend.
Behind silk gowns and courtly grace, a malignant will guides the kingdom toward a single, terrible purpose. Factions shift. Alliances fray. A king clings to his throne as the creature wearing a noblewoman’s face bends the city—and its people—toward the will of her ancient master.
Cults gather. Eldritch servants stir. Only a fear remembered from ages past slows her advance, and the four fated to oppose her walk their paths unaware.
A dark god stirs beyond the world’s edge.
Four souls are drawn to the brink of a war larger than any legend.
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