The Great Pandemonium: Animus

It is said that a demon roams the Shalewarrens of the Oribian, viciously murdering anyone foolish enough to venture through the tunnels for too long or wander too far.

Unfortunately, this demon is not the one that the Inferi Drystan Nighttyr, newly assigned to the Northeastern Dominion, has been tasked to track down and dispose of. Instead, he is given the mission of finding an ordinary pack of werewolves who have been raiding trade caravans on the surface. His mission takes a unexpected detour when he finds the only survivors of a wrecked wagon train to be a pair of Enkiri slaves, immediately deciding to seek out the band of freed Enkiri rumored to be wandering the Shalewarrens rather than return the women to the civilization that will simply keep them in bondage.

Drystan's goodwill effort fails rather spectacularly when he discovers the source of the demon rumors to be Akkali Noirfang, an Enkiri who is more than willing to apply her considerable martial and magical skills to mercilessly slaughtering everyone who comes upon her clan of escaped slaves--including him. Finding that Akkali knows far more about the secret lives lead by Imperial Oratios than even Antenox, Drystan forms an alliance with the cold-blooded killer that leads them to the lawless city-state of Gendelheim. In the dank shadows beneath the city's sewers, they find a cadre of witches gathered to bring something truly evil from the Gate of Pandemonium and let it loose within the underground tunnels of the Oribian...