Contents

Invocation

PART ONE: THE WINTER WAR

Chapter One: Lone Survivor

Chapter Two: Conversations in A Thousand Towers

Chapter Three: Knife

Chapter Four: Red and Gray

Chapter Five: Evening in the Gravehills

Chapter Six: The Hill of Storms

PART TWO: RITES OF SPRING

Chapter One: What Really Happened

Chapter Two: Blood’s Price

Chapter Three: Death of a Summoner

Chapter Four: The Last Station

Chapter Five: Evening in A Thousand Towers

Chapter Six: A Parting; a Meeting

Chapter Seven: A Needle of Sunlight

Chapter Eight: Vengeancer

Chapter Nine: The Lacklands

Chapter Ten: Scenes of the Crime

Chapter Eleven: Among the Vraids

Chapter Twelve: Intruder in the Death House

Chapter Thirteen: The Sea Road to Grarby

Chapter Fourteen: Empty Sock

Chapter Fifteen: The God and His Enemies

Chapter Sixteen: Dead Ends

Chapter Seventeen: Miracles of St. Danadhar

Chapter Eighteen: Second Chances

Chapter Nineteen: Enemies of the Enemy

Chapter Twenty: End of Deceit

Chapter Twenty-One: The Chains of the God

PART THREE: A COLD SUMMER

Chapter One: Endless Empire

Chapter Two: Fire, Gods, and a Stranger

Chapter Three: To Market, To Market

Chapter Four: The Flight of the Viviana

Chapter Five: The Wreck of the Viviana

Chapter Six: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Chapter Seven: The Graith Divided

Chapter Eight: News from Home

Chapter Nine: Ghosts and Shadows

PART FOUR: FALL

Chapter One: The Way Back

Sigil

APPENDICES

A. The Lands of Laent during the Ontilian Interregnum

B. The Gods of Laent

C. Calendar and Astronomy

D. The Wardlands and the Graith of Guardians

E. Note on Ambrosian Legend and Its Sources, Lost and Found