In the struggling city of Bridwath, food is scarce and bandits rule the roads. When a merchant's daughter is kidnapped, four unlikely mercenaries answer the call: a nhoblit acolyte of the hearth, a bitter dwarf who has lost his place in the world, an angsty teen with a bow and a hunger for vengeance, and a farmer who has lost a decade of his life to a fey dream.
They rescue the girl. They collect their reward. They think the job is done.
But behind the bandit hideout lies a deeper darkness. A missing boy. A professor who experiments on orphans. A worm that feeds on souls.
And a prophecy written in the hidden secrets of the sky, whispered by a dying sage:
Two powers strive for the same high throne, One of fire, the other of bone.
Rik Musik does not know why the warmth behind his eyes whispers his name. He does not know that he has been chosen.
