TARA AITKINS, The youngest Knight Provost in the military regulators, sequestered by the Pathfinders of the church to track down ecclesiastical conspirators. Sceptical, she carry’s out her duties and discovers that not all truths are absolute.

TREPADAIUS JACK, Leader of the Pathfinders, Alderman of the Black branch and protector of the Imperial Church, a man driven by loss and a friend of fear. He believes in the greater good, is moved by divine inspiration and is highly motivated. The empire must survive and with the church guiding, it will.

CREIGHTON BURROWS, a Discerner of the Empire Regulator’s; Thameston Division. Born on the far off shores of the Pearl Sea in Taoasia, to a garrison Healer and a Major of the Black Dog Regiment.  Husband and father to a murdered wife and daughter and now after following a trail of a narcotic that causes cannibalistic urges, Creighton comes across a name. A name that has haunted him since the death of his daughter and wife and this name will lead to a reckoning.