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Locked away in a realm of suppressed shadow and secrets, Messmer endures his eternal imprisonment as his loyal companions wither and fade alongside him. Until the day something in the sky shatters, provoking the abyssal serpent within him into a hateful writhe. It reduces him to days of laying bedbound with only scattered moments of coherence.
His soldiers at the Shadow Keep fear the worst, and the reports of strangers can only bring grim tidings. Doubtlessly they seek his death, and to reach the Tower his mother sealed away so long ago. Even wounded, even ailing, he will not allow it.The Tarnished, ex-thief and failed burglar, has followed the guidance of grace since the day of his first death. Away from the slums of his homeland and into the cursed cesspit that is the Lands Between. He followed grace from one battlefield to another, and through his hands only came further suffering. Disillusioned and lured by the honeyed words of a demigod, he passes through the veil only to find a land impossibly worse.
Now he seeks something else, without the guidance of grace, something that may even be impossible: to return the Land of Shadow to the Lands Between and free those within it, even its cruelest prisoner.