<p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">A voice calls to them from Volendam.</span></p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Five misfits are forced together by fate.</span></p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">A vampire marked by a shadow woman possessing his blood.</span></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">A thief with a price on her head for attempting to assassinate the sultan of Shoma.</span></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">A man who lost his name.</span></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">And two lizardfolk. One seeking the knowledge of immortality. The other, a life that is their own.</span></p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">When the ground opens up and sends them underground, the five strangers land inside a cavern overrun by rakken - grotesque, mutated rats worshiping a god whose return will bring about the end of days. As they fight their way to the surface, they're each branded with dark magic that connects them. Now a sudden urge pulls them to Volendam, a city of many secrets.</span></p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">But when they arrive, will they find a cure for their branded curse or trigger the awakening of the dragons of Vilanthris?</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>