A strange wind billows down from the Celestial Towers, through the green sea and into the sheltered moors of Muskenryde. The Sullen Architects, three siblings who created the world have begun to destroy it, slowly turned insane by the torture inflicted upon the land at the hands of mankind. The only thing capable of cutting the Sullen Architects down is Possessed Steel, a fabled sword of unfathomable power that can consume the soul and thoughts of those who wield it. Aedris discovers he is the last of kin in a long ancient bloodline that can wield the sword. He must choose to heed a prophecy of ruin or ignore it. "The horn of a black unicorn to become its blade, and its boiling blood to forge it. Balnir's hammer toils for a day high up where the towers stay. The breath of the lich to quench the steel, and a white stags pelt to keep its twisted cries concealed".
