The peace bought by the Trinity Fusion was a fragile glass ornament, and it shattered with the arrival of the first scream from the borderlands. While the Royal Sanctum was still thick with the scent of sandalwood and the lingering heat of the healing ritual, the outskirts of the Blackfang territory were being painted in a much darker hue.
The "Viper"—known in the records of the Under-City as Malakor's most lethal shadow and the younger brother of the fallen Sienna—had begun his descent. He did not come with the clinical coldness of the Architects; he came with the jagged, scorched-earth vengeance of a man who had lost his kin and found his purpose in ruin.
