The collision left them fractured. The truth left them enraged. Idd, the disgraced shaman, wakes not to peace, but to imprisonment in the very institution that broke him. Unwilling to face his past, he unravels. Korthe, the ruthless mercenary, discovers her crusade was built on a foundation of lies. Armed with a dead man's ring, she carves a new path-not of revenge, but of total reckoning. Brought together by conspiracy and bound by a shared trauma, they must navigate a fragile alliance. They were once weapons aimed at each other; now, they are a singular blade aimed at the heart of the Nine Realms. But in a world of lies, the most dangerous betrayal is the one that comes from within. Artwork by Zein Hestnæs.