As a chosen Sealer, I willingly keep vigil over the Hollow Knives, the souls within, and the bodies below. With the shattering of the blade, I shall render mercy to the body. With the return of the spirit, I shall announce the grace of the Guiding Hand. Should the Husk arise, I shall spend the blood of my life in returning evil to the Cavity. This I swear until my body, my spirit, my soul be committed to earth.

 

 

Galla plans to one day take his father's place as dock master. Dil wants nothing more than to continue his life as a Fisher. Friends from the cradle, they begin a new and hopeful chapter of life as something more.

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But in their world, a shadow always looms. An eternal battle rages in the Twixt to keep the Cavity at bay. And the Guiding Hand summons all its children for judgement. Most leave the Hand's presence unmarked, unchosen to fill a place in one of its three orders. Not all...

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Galla and Dil dread their own Ceremony of Marking. Yet only in their worst nightmares do they ever imagine being marked by the Hand. 

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When the time comes, reality proves worse than dreams.

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Faced with an eternity apart, each man must decide whether to accept fate or to challenge the god of it all.