Siska of Voruta, the Archon, or leader of the Vagabond Bards, has traveled to the burgeoning mining town of Holtsville at the behest of a childhood friend. Brother Orson and his fellow monks of the St. Atreus Monastery have borne witness to a series of brutal murders and mutilations over the intervening months, and now need her help and advice to sort things out. What initially appears to be the work of a cult or a serial killer leads them into...