One hundred years before the events chronicled in the first book of The Sixth World of Men, there existed a Nasoan investigator whose given name was Natib Pruthame, but everyone called him simply Nat. This talented investigator served prominently in three wars, but like most people of the world of Kosundo, he was tired of war. As fortune would have it, Nat happens upon a case that dangles the promise of ending the never-ending condition of war that...