The shock of the disturbance rippling over the unseen was sensed by the grand vizier’s hired circle of shamans. They engaged a deep scrying, and uncovered the pattern of a scourge whose signature did not match the nine demons whose sorcerers walked abroad on the earth. Alarmed to encounter an unknown danger, they pursued the source, but lost the dread line as it grounded. To the emperor’s capitol, they sent urgent word: a new peril stalked the cleft of Hell’s Chasm, that might threaten their far northern border…