A Pawn in a Dire Game

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.

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