The world is not as it seems. You think there is only the visible world for the living, and the invisible for the dead and the immortal? You are wrong. There are many realms interweaving with each other like the threads in a tapestry. Most are invisible most of the time. But sometimes, some people fall into other realms or encounter the denizens of those places. Some of these Powers are good. Many are not…
-From “A Primer on Nebesti Cosmology” (The Lore of Nebesta, Book I, 3:6-8)
CHAPTER NINE
The FallAmong the ubiquitous women and children—some walking but most hanging on their mothers—Voran found no men at all. The implication was chilling—whoever did this had killed or captured the men and sent the women forward to spread tales of terror in their wake. Whoever this enemy was, they we
