In the scorched empire of Akkadia, maps are more valuable than gold, and Elian was once the greatest cartographer to ever serve the Sun-King.
But after a disastrous expedition into the Whispering Wastes left him partially blinded and his reputation in ruins, Elian was cast into the gutters of the capital. When his daughter, Lyra, is seized by the royal guard to pay for his ancient debts, Elian is forced into a desperate gamble.
He possesses the Obsidian Compass—a relic from a forgotten era that allegedly points not to the north, but to the “Cradle of the Gods.”
To save his daughter, Elian must lead a band of mercenaries and a treacherous high priestess across a landscape of shifting sands and eldritch ruins, rediscovering a world that was never meant to be mapped.
