In the New Connected States, science has progressed far enough to implant a network of wires into each human that uses the body’s electrical signals to gather information. You can’t hide when you’re being watched from the inside.
Clean water has run out. Government has fallen, military and religious factions have risen. A woman’s son is stolen. To get him back, she must fight the Keepers of the Faith, and discover a way to bring water back to Earth.
When the God-Emperor, the tyrant ruling Sangrithar, sends his thrall, Lord Warden Hali Halvyl to collect an overdue tithe from the downtrodden Baron of Cormane, he never dreams that Hali will break the age old compulsion binding him. .
Above Acuity’s Monolith, a seldom seen aurora, a disharmonic schism which heralds contention and strife. The Anodecum’s journey across the Divides is begun, but Destiny rarely walks her chosen in a straight path. Come Harvester, Necromagians in tow.