Matthew Hunter

Imagine a hard-bitten mercenary company, the last of the 12 Free Companies of Khatovar, wielding swords, spies, sappers, and seige engines with equal facility in a world where wizards rule the battlefield and the last of the dragons was eaten millenia ago by something even more dangerous. Imagine ten of the most powerful wizards in the world, all bound to serve one even more powerful than they: the Ten Who Were Taken.

The fallen: Bayonetta, warrior queen, destined to bear Feverborne’s children, slain by a skeleton to the face. Parmox, Torchbearer, dissolved by pink slime. Tannen, elf, was laid to rest in the manner of his people. Baldin, torchbearer, died to pink slime?