Before the honored dead are placed in their sarcophagi of alabaster, they come to the Villa of the Embalmers.

In the depths of Destinen Wood, the grotesque pets of the Dark Lady lurk, belching forth their vile webs.

Crawling among the garbage and offal, the detritus of what men call civilization, the myrie bugs claim their own small domains. They eat, and breed, and wait…

Within the lost tomb of Abu Khanut, Agarn the Impulsive brought the forgotten priest's curse down upon his student, Alain Piercetongue. Now the wrath of an ancient god stalks the desert sands.

The spectacular enchantments of Agarn the Impulsive could have been even greater if he had been able to keep any of his apprentices...

In a shadowed alley near Bassage Market, the secretive master of the city's 'resurrection men' studies mysteries of life and death.

Near the center of the forest are the hidden halls that house the Court of Dark Memory, one of the last bastions of the Unseleigh Courts.

Kranno the Goblin didn't know what to do with his mastery of the art of skulking until he met the frustrated poet Vonyich Festelgabber.

"The Tower of Ill Omen!" the old gypsy gasped as she glimpsed the shattered structure at the mountain's peak.

The Heretic Corvius bore a silken banner into battle, a blood-red standard embroidered with the ominous figure of a serpent.

Few are the sons of men who have come to understand the ways of the Volgotoi, the huge warrior race commonly referred to as Ogres.

The Gohhi tribesmen of the Sallvian desert preserve the worship of an ancient goddess...

Even the boldest quake with fear of the Kobelyn Cavalry of Terkuss Tahkhan! Especially if they're on the same side!

The city of the Bright People fell, but the spirit of its people remains. A legend of the Ouzquin Dremorix.

"How far? Ye'll know ye've found Malver's Way when ye sees the Arch."

Few men truly know the Earth Children and their enigmatic rulers, the Loresingers. These keepers of ancient secrets are among the greatest allies, and the most subtle enemies, that humanity could ever know.

Sailors long to visit the idyllic islands of the generous Zwitter folk...

The beautiful Fairy Castle of Princess Callia, favored daughter of deranged Emperor Sentatian.

None could deny that the Torner the Fearless' heartbroken widow did mourning well.

Shrouded in rags, this fallen foreign nobleman serves as the lethal right hand of the queen of the beggars.