For many years, little had disturbed the cavern that once a hermit named Riven Darkangel had called home. It was a small place to begin with, the domed cave resting behind the soothing rush of a waterfall, mostly hidden from the rest of the world. The falls themselves were not a spectacle; short, reaching barely [...]

For seven hundred years, the great Mage-city of Wrenn had worked its will among the outer lands, hidden from the world at large by an all-encompassing ward; no one knew of its existence, and none but its own city folk had any reason to want to. Its high scholars and priests, acolytes and arcessitors, and [...]