The Great Game in Arallor continues. Great forces act through other people’s hands, but not all their instruments are willing to remain mere tools, because the price of the game is the very existence of Arallor itself. A power has come into motion so great that both mages and gods go mad. Some want universal good, others—by contrast— their own might, and still others want to bring what’s been reduced to nothingness back to life. But behind them all lurks the ominous specter of blood magic… A hired battle-mage Vitar Laeda, a necromaster Rico, the imperial mage Publius Marron, and the former slave Shaarte, the Northern Witch, and Quint Fabius Vespa— all of them are moving toward their fate. Will the world withstand this onslaught, will it not tear itself from its roots, will it not burn? Read the ending of the epic novel “The Revolt of Mad Gods”!