Caina Amalas has found the lost relics of Iramis, but with the relics comes deadly peril.
For Grand Master Callatas is ready to work his terrible Apotheosis, and all he needs to unleash the dark power of the nagataaru is the Staff and the Seal of Iramis...once he takes them from Caina's dead hands.
Yet if Caina and Callatas do not work together, they are doomed.
For the last of the fearsome Great Necromancers, Kharnaces the Heretic, laid his sinister trap long ago, and its jaws now close around his former pupil Callatas. Unless the mighty sorcery of Kharnaces is defeated, he will unmake the world in his dark designs.
Starting with Caina and Callatas...