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He thought his mission was a joke at his expense, and now he's got the fate of the region in his hands.
Liath-Tamren is the largest urban center in a region wrapped around an inland sea. The Cities reflect the diversity of cultures and trade that flow across the Halu, enriched by immigrant enclaves and temples to foreign gods, but not all its citizens find that pleasing. No one is more misunderstood than the Malisaat, with their secretive faith, their envy-inspiring wealth, and their freaky black-eyed sorcerers, who scare them too.
As one of said freaky sorcerers, otherwise known as the Azhkan Soubir, Japhet's used to being in on the secrets. But when the head of his cabal sends him to the Cities, his orders are basically: go there for reasons. Not the usual mission. And why here?
Japhet's beat is the arcane; he's more used to threatening gods and guarding world-shaking mysteries. Liath-Tamren is a tame, bourgeois place (which he hates). The Cities' problems used to be what one expects in an urban center run by a string of incompetent do-nothing kings who still regard their subjects as foreigners a thousand years after conquering them. Its sorcerers are tax-paying citizens organized into guilds who sell their services to shopkeepers. So color him confused by the chaos he finds when he arrives.
It doesn't help that his fellow Azhkan Soubir are acting hinky. He's going to have to seek help from locals, normal folks who don't yet know they have something to contribute. At the top of the agenda: figure out why the Cities are being target by a comical profusion of metaphysical players who never took an interest heretofore.
An urban center so real it must be. A plot centuries in the making. Laugh-out-loud dark comedy. Fall in love with Liath-Tamren.
(Just don't call it a 'city.' Really.)
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