The city of Saranja is dying, but it does not know how to stop. Its streets twist when unobserved, its towers weep black ink, and its people vanish as if they were never there. Deep beneath its foundations, something breathes—waiting. Neno Vaulden awakens in a ruined chapel with no memory of how he arrived. In his hand, a single page from a book that should not exist: the Hollow Gospel. The ink shifts and writhes as if alive, forming words meant only for him: "Seek the Mouth of Saranja before it speaks your name."