The Last Flame

Zarveth did not return to life. He slid between. Neither dead, nor alive — neither wholly man, nor wholly beast. As a reborn monk, geist-bound, and warden of souls, he walks the thresholds of worlds. He bears the name Zarveth el’Surna as an oat...

In the depth of death, his soul was not pulled back to the Boneyard. It was held. Touched. An esobok, a psychopomp with eyes like black stars and fangs carved from light-stone, spoke to him: "You are not finished with dying. Pharasma still has work...

For years, Lioren trained as a monk of the Boneyard, devoted to the balance of souls, to rites and rest. He learned the names of silences, the steps of death rituals, and how to break bones with bare hands when that rest was disturbed. Until the night...

Lioren Thassel, an orphan in the ruined city of Ravengro, where mist forever clung between the rooftops and the churches rang like echoes from another world. The townsfolk said he was “born silent” — no cry, no breath, only open eyes that seemed to ...

Lioren Thassel, an orphan in the ruined city of Ravengro, where mist forever clung between the rooftops and the churches rang like echoes from another world. The townsfolk said he was “born silent” — no cry, no breath, only open eyes that seemed to ...