The Keeper of the Shrine has been a Vessel for many years, serving the people of Mift by standing between them and the Incarnation Ashgarashgaran, the dark face of the one god, who comes to take all men in time.
It has not always been so.
The distant years of youth, the time before the penance of servitude, are something the Vessel has attempted to put aside, but when an unexpected visitor comes to Mift, the Vessel is forced to confront memories and reforge connections that bring new light to old events and show that history is not always what it seems.
A tale of the price of adventure and the bonds between friends and family, humen and othermen, mortals and gods.
A. C. Fellows met in North Queensland and lived there a long time. For the past eight years they have lived a long way from anyone on the New England Tableland in New South Wales. They have two children, a role-playing system, and any number of worlds, the most well-developed one of which is Tsai. While most of their works are not strictly co-written, they grow out of a tangled mass of stories, characters, and backgrounds that they have generated together.