Crafted in her Image
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Retired assassin Gavric is tempted out of retirement by Imperial Captain Kaelira, who offers him an ancient golden coin from a dead god's bridal dowry. Though rejecting payment, he joins her reckless quest to kill the necromancer Maldakar, intrigued by her fierce desperation.
Tasked with navigating cursed swamps and relics tied to forgotten myths, Gavric clashes with Kaelira while surviving the strangest allies: an elven pyromancer who burns first, asks later, and a hunter who shoots first and never asks.
But as truths unravel, Gavric faces a choice: flee his past, or let Kaelira rewrite his future.
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