Miasma

<p class=ql-align-justify>Living alone with his mother on the edge of an ever-encroaching swamp teeming with toxic magic young Nereus Vestryn has grown up hearing stories about the feral people the 'miasma' has infected. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>So when one morning he finds his mother crawling sickened from the swamp he has no choice but to summon a mage to help her. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>But mages are feared figures reminders of the ways the swamp can twist people and her arrival has greater repercussions than Nereus bargained for. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>As long-held family secrets are uncovered and an unexpected threat arrives on the doorstep Nereus must ask himself: what really makes a monster?</p><p><br></p>