Centuries entombed. A future stolen, replaced by one of ash and bones.  Daecinus, master Sorcerer and reclusive statesman, awakens from an arcane prison to find his people wiped from history, their disappearance buried in centuries of lies. He seeks the truth, even if it drags him back to a war-torn path he vowed never to tread again. Alongside him in a tenuous peace, the prophetic priestess Emalia, whose visions demand Daecinus’s sacrifice, and Oskar, a sardonic sellsword with all the loyalty of a blood-slicked coin. They’ve all been betrayed by the Imperial Tsardom of Vasia—a nation on the edge of collapse, divided between a weak tsar and independent voivodes hungry for more power. Laczlo Vilsky, lowest of the voivodes, is forced far from home by debts and cruel politics to pursue a dangerous scheme that threatens to destroy him, his family, and all of Vasia.   In the shadow of the past, a new era dawns. And the four Souls find themselves inextricably bound to each other and the fate of Vasia. Be it one of glorious rebirth or, like many of its former lands, Necromantic Corruption.