Part 1

Towards the end of the Clan Wars, a mysterious visitor shows up behind Treeny Sou's pig sty. What she's doing there--and why she won't speak--is terribly entangled with the fate of the free world, and Treeny's own tiny village.

Peace comes at the price of power. This is an origin story of Naradya Avolya, Grand Master Necromancer at the end of the Clan Wars. Takes place roughly twenty years after the events in Bonemaker, and roughly a hundred and fifty years before Aurian and Jin.