The Moontide has come and the Leviathan Bridge stands open now thrones will shake and hearts will be torn apart in a world at war.A scarlet tide of Rondian legions is flooding into the East, led by the Inquisitions windships flying the Sacred Heart, the bright banner of the Churchs darkest sons. They are slaughtering and pillaging their way across Antiopia in the name of Emperor Constant. But the emperors greatest treasure, the Scytale of Corineus, has slipped through his fingers and his ruthless Inquisitors must scour two continents for the artefact, the source of all magical power.Against them are the unlikeliest of heroes. Alaron, a failed mage, the gypsy, Cymbellea, and Ramita, once just a lowly market-girl, have pledged to end the cycle of war and restore peace to Urte.