It had been once a property ravaged by war, minor city expresses, baronies and principates combat for supremacy, and then the rival cities of Tali and Quon formed an alliance therefore Quon Tali came into being.

However that was generations ago, that dynasty has collapsed as well as the regional powers are actually clawing at each others throats once again. But in the centre of Quon Tali is situated the effective city state of Li Heng which includes for centuries enjoyed relative stability under the guidance from the effective sorceress about Dancer’s Lament: Way to Ascendancy Book 1 referred to as the “Protectress”. She actually is not someone likely to tolerate the appearance of two particular teenagers into her domain: one is determined to prove he’s the most skilled assassin of his age; the other is usually his quarry – a Dal Hon mage who’s proving annoyingly hard to destroy. The sorceress and her cabal of five mage servants had been plenty of to repel the Quon Tali Iron Legions, just how could two such trouble-makers upset her iron-fisted rule?

And today, under a fresh and ambitious ruler, the forces of Itko Kan are marching on Li Heng in the south. His very own assassins, the Nightblades, have been sent ahead into the town, and rumours abound that he provides inhuman, nightmarish makes at his order. So as shadows and mistrust swirl and monstrous beasts that folks say appear from nowhere, operate rampage through Li Heng’s roads, it seems chaos is come – however in chaos, mainly because a certain young Dal Hon mage would state, there is chance .