Like all of their race, dwelling in the city of Cadanla, Fah-Laën and his fiancée Mei-Hood live in the half-elf ghetto, and work in the vast abattoir known as The Oven. But when poisoned meat from the abattoir is served at the Regent's table, quarantine is declared, and Fah-Laën is tasked with killing all the infected beasts...
His reward? To be sealed in, abandoned to certain death, to limit the spread of any contagion. And whilst the city is weakened, to the North on the Nodrënn Rift, strange and worrying ships are landing...
