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Only warders, guards of the border garrisons armed with repellent sigils, are able to protect against the hyssil, ravenous spirits that curse the abandoned wilds since the magic of the last mage empire crumbled over a thousand years prior. Thanks to a century of protection since the last sigil failure, the threat of the hyssil has dulled in the minds of the Talmany populace to an uneasy memory.
Unfortunately for Maxwell Darrow, some memories come back to haunt you.
Stationed at the South Point garrison, Maxwell is a government seer conscripted for a ten year border contract, providing his magical Sight in service to a garrison theurgist. He’s survived three years, despite the growing dangers, and is determined to complete his contract so he can escape into more lucrative seer work far from any threat.
But when a swarm of hyssil overwhelms South Point, Maxwell's life is overturned in a single, terrible night. His garrison is overrun, his fellow warders dead or possessed. Talmany is soon to be lost, but maybe there is still hope. Far to the north lies Lathuel, a land that might as well be myth, guarded by impenetrable magic. Lathuel hasn't communicated with the outside world since the fall of the mage empire, but if anyone can save Maxwell's people from the hyssil, it's them.
Driven by determination and grief, it’s up to Maxwell to overcome myth and deadly memories made reality to save Talmany from devastation. But his journey is complicated by discovering a hyssil has bound itself to him, corrupting his soul. The hyssil is uncomfortably attractive, impossible to ignore, and seemingly sincere that Maxwell’s pursuit of help in Lathuel will only lead to worse consequences for them both.
Caught between Lathuel’s figurehead queen and her infighting aristocracy, Maxwell must uncover the truth while facing his own corruption in a land teetering on revolution, and the spirits are drawing ever closer...
