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Matthew Hughes

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The two meet when they come seeking work at a riverside warehouse that handles goods being shipped up- and downstream. The job pays more than it ought to, so long as they keep their mouths shut. They do that, but they also keep their eyes open, and soon they discover their new employer is engaged in shifty operations. Worse, they suspect his brutish bodyguard may have killed the workers Vunt and Oldo have replaced.
From there, the two young men embark on a perilous adventure that will see them hired on as caravan guards—while acting as undercover operatives of the Vanderoy wizards’ Guild—traveling north to Ur Nazim then pursuing the developing mystery in the city of half-mad thaumaturges, Olliphract.
They’ll encounter wonders and terrors, worlds they never dreamed of, visiting the Underworld and even the unknown depths of the human psyche, struggling to fight their way free of the schemes and duels of powerful spellslingers and madmen.
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