Once she was the most enigmatic of the Voices, until cursed by her own actions. A murderer and traitor – an exile disgraced, hated, and feared, and haunted by her own guilty conscience – Maskelle has been summoned back to help put the world right. With chaos in the wind, a woman with a shadowy past has returned to Duvalpore. Each morning the storm reappears, bigger and darker than before, unraveling the beautiful and orderly patterns. Every night the Voices of the Ancestors – the Wheel's constructors and caretakers – brush the darkness away and repair the damage with brightly colored sands and potent magic. Should the holy image be marred, the world will suffer a similar injury.īut a black storm is spreading across the Wheel. Linked by the mystic energies of the Infinite, the Wheel and world are one. For it is then that the very fabric of the world must be rewoven. Every hundred years the sacred rite takes on added significance. Every in the great temple city of Duvalpore, the image of the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure another year of peace and harmony for the Celestial Empire.
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