The Book of Origins (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780645726343)

"You are the silent knife in the night, the eyes everywhere, that will do what no other can or will..."

The vast Vol Supremacy maintains an iron grip over its people through a secret cabal of spies and assassins known as the dakir. Offered as tribute by their parents, and trained from childhood, the dakir are skilled and ruthless - tasked with crushing dissent in any way they see fit. Three dakir novices approach their final trial, having long relinquished any hope of a future for themselves. Their only wish is to serve their religious order.

Or so they tell themselves.

Meanwhile, the Supremacy has discovered a lush, wild continent to the south. The settlement there slips slowly toward rebellion - dissenting voices speaking in public, attendance at holy ceremonies dwindling, and an underground resistance fanning the flames of an uprising. And what of the mysteries of this strange new land itself - apparently uninhabited, yet so suited to human life?

Something awaits that will alter the Supremacy forever. This is where it begins.