Only half of all recruits survive to become Written mages. Only they can wield the fiercest of magics, the powers needed to protect the Arka, until death or madness takes them.

Five scholars of Arfell have been assassinated. A spellbook has gone missing - a powerful summoning manual from the time of elves and fire-born daemons. The Arkmages are running out of time and options, and the world is once again on the brink of war with the Siren dragon-riders. It falls to Farden - one of the Arka's most powerful Written mages - to keep Emaneska from falling into chaos.

Entangled in a web of lies and politics, Farden is tasked with hunting down the assassin and recovering the spellbook before it falls into the wrong hands and the world is cast into shadow. It will mean fighting his way across the savage realms of Emaneska, a land infested with wyrms, marauders, and betrayal. It will take every fiber of his will - not to mention every scrap of magic in his bones - to survive.

And if Farden should fall... so shall the world.

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