Blood of the Banshee

When a banshee-blooded outlaw is snatched in a crowded inn, she becomes leverage in a legal battle amongst the Valariels of Sanctaris. Bindings hold her between life and death, and rival orders contest her fate. The Justarin demands custody while others fight to spare her. Zaras, a battle-worn elf turned bounty hunter who nearly captured her, wakes in rioting Nocturnis, stabbed and choking on sewage. Auralon, exhausted from purging plagues, returns to Sanctaris to find the girl cocooned in spell-thread as his mentor faces a trial mired in politics.

When a banshee-blooded outlaw is snatched in a crowded inn, she becomes leverage in a legal battle amongst the Valariels of Sanctaris. Bindings hold her between life and death, and rival orders contest her fate. The Justarin demands custody while others fight to spare her.

When a banshee-blooded outlaw is snatched in a crowded inn, she becomes leverage in a legal battle amongst the Valariels of Sanctaris. Bindings hold her between life and death, and rival orders contest her fate. The Justarin demands custody while others fight to spare her. Zaras takes shelter at Midnox Endir and meets Liora, whose request draws him beyond the village bounds and into something a bit gross. After witnessing the Dawning, Auralon steps into his long-denied bath until Cedwin returns without his grin. In the Mists, Maggie and Salt seek out a Seer for answers.

Zaras follows the road to Scathe Vioil, but the howls of the bieriscats are not the only haunting creature keeping him awake. Auralon meets a visiting magister and his daughter, whose story brings the past to the table just as judgement begins. Maggie and Salt speak of times before the Mist. Across the world of Elisar, dragons vanish, necromancy resurges, and plagues are spreading like ink in rainwater.