An age ends in blood and darkness...
For untold generations, the peoples of the Qaehl have prosperedâ€"trading and warring as they expanded across the great desert. Mighty city-states rise unassailable above the sands, centers of commerce in a great web of humanity. Messengers and nomads, tradesmen and bandits, cross the burning wastes with each rising of the sun.
A change is coming. Strange creatures have been sighted in the deep desert. Rumors whisper of horrors begotten out of legend. But there is yet hope: a brave courier, an innocent young dancer, a compassionate warrior â€" each holding a fragment of the truth, each seeking the future. Each adrift in the desert, trying to survive the advent of ruin.
