Liran Namtila is a quirky alfar bard, traveling the continent of Ki with her trusty lute ready for action.

Then birds crap on her head. As she's washing off the doo-doo in a brook, she picks up a black pebble emitting strange magic. It turns out to be a fragment of an eldritch soul gem called the Morningstar. Liran decides to carry the pebble.

Gradually, the pebble seeds corruption into her soul. Her and Ki's salvation depends on seeking out the immortal hammer to smash the tiny black menace into cosmic dust.

Otherwise, soulless armies and an ancient evil will fully revive. Nothing will be able to stop their continent-wide decimation then.

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