Rites of Bronze and Iron

Magic still holds power in this age. Tribal affiliations are still dominant. Settlers and nomads raid each other and regard each other with suspicion. Cultural contacts are often fraught with peril.

When a young boy of the nomadic pastoralist Sharp-Shooter tribe, Frakâna, shows up in the Settlement of the Deepmoors, asking permission to visit one of their holy sites, it naturally raises suspicions. The two Deepmoors sent to accompany him, Satbai and Nâla, seek to uncover the truth about Frakâna, but in so doing they trigger an avalanche of violence and intrigue that threatens to split the Deepmoor Settlement apart. Can the Deepmoors and the Sharp-Shooters put their differences aside long enough to prevent an all-out war?