Back Cover Blurb
“Understand that both our guilds have a deep enmity for one another that stretches
back a thousand years. The Chemist Guild was founded due to the exclusiveness
of the Alchemy Guild. Their resilience and passion for what they do have had a
benefit of challenging and pushing us further than we’ve anticipated.”
With the retirement of the Head of the Sect of Life Alchemy
imminent, a prodigy within the Alchemist Guild, Arnashir Pahlarz, is named his
successor. But not everyone is pleased with that decision. Feelings of
resentment have opened a festering wound, leaving Arnashir to prove himself the
right person for the position when the need arises…
A long-standing member of the Chemist Guild, Doctor Leerna
Arjhandor is given an important assignment by her guild leader. A mysterious
illness has gripped the city of Marodst; its apothecarium is in dire need of
supplies and personnel. She accepts with little hesitation, taking her two most
trusted apothecaries, Kazael Bahlad and Sahmrin Hasnik. Though little does she
know or understand the cost that awaits her…
And amidst all of this and more, a deranged figure moves
across Dielberen, using forbidden practices to collect souls and knowledge
needed for a ritual to end a curse that was set into place ages past…
There is contagion, one that needs to be excised before it’s
too late…
