Introduction: "The horror of impiety. The horror of doubt - of disease. Of filth and frenzy, of fear and disloyalty. The horror of a house aimed for collapse, and the truth that the pillars hoisting it up are aged and rotten. Truly, has a nation ever been better prepped for damnation?"The land of Arakvan is bereft and under siege. The brave few crusade into the underearth, to stave off the unruly below-worlders and their ailments, whilst the reins of Galehaven lash boundless to make rifts in the heavens. High in the Whilderwheats are the scattered sort yet succumbed to despair: Ander defects from all instinct, swaying in her clifftop cage; Horral and Eidrik war without aim, to decipher duty in the insides of fiends; Ulf Eldric descends from the North, to seek out his grim charge and banish its obscurers. In Arakvan do many terrors stir, as the land without forgiveness, without relent, begins its revolt. This dramatic saga finds those wayfarers cast between fate鈥檚 ebbs, whilst they juggle the indulgence of the dark with the fantastic, unreachable otherwise. Arakvan starves, and this burdened cast explores the tumble between devourers amidst a veiled skirmish of continued self-truth....