The Mark of Nerath

IT IS A TIME OF MAGIC AND MONSTERS, A TIME WHEN ONLY A FEW SCATTERED POINTS OF LIGHT GLOW WITH STUBBORN DETERMINATION AMID ARISING TIDE OF SHADOWS. IT IS A TIME WHEN ONLY THE BRAVEST HEROES DARE TREAD THE WILDS OF THE UNKNOWN.. .

Magroth the Mad an erstwhile emperor and tyrant from the time of Nerath, the world's last empire—yearns to be free of his eternal prison in the Shadowfell. And Orcus, the Demon Prince of Undeath, has a plan to help him.

Falon of Nenlast, a small trading village in the northern reaches of the Nentir Vale, is a novice priest of Erathis, mostly content, mostly ignorant of the dark corners of the world.

With fear and dread loose in the world like hounds in a hunt, Falon and a ragtag company of adventures must venture forth and confront the forces that threaten to extinguish the delicate light of civilization forever.