Overview:  There is blood drying on the floor of Shell’s Tavern.
Cicerine and Maelwen have found strength in one another, but the threads between them pull taut in the face of a devastating blow. Navigating grief amidst the wreckage of a brutal conflict, they struggle to balance what they have gained with what they have lost. With the crew of the Sea Song on the water and Shell at their backs, they prepare to stand against an evil which threatens them all.

Meanwhile, Father Farragen’s insidious quest for power brings him face to face with his dark origins and the new world he hopes to create. He and the Crone grapple for power in the capital city of Athydis as casualties multiply in their wake.

But Idyth is not the only God who threatens to rise from the past.

Across the sea and throughout the continent, heroes are forged. Through ancient texts and forgotten magics, buried truths and shameful secrets, Maelwen and Cicerine unravel a tangled history, hoping to find a future for the people they love.