Shar, once the greatest city on the continent, still rises from the desert behind walls that have never been breached—gold-capped domes, a monumental ziggurat at its center, a legacy built over a thousand years. But a shadow has been slowly crossing the face of the sun, and the change it brings is being felt in Shar first: a plague the citizens call Aya's Wrath has arrived, and it is unlike anything the city's healers have faced before.