Book 2: Vessels

This page describes the story of the second book in the Cloudmaker Saga: Vessels.

The heroes, now accompanied by Tara from the marshland tribe and Cozy, an efreet enchanted by Evanor's metallic scars seek to dispel the Godsblood curse from the so called "Vessels", the Empress's hosts of magical powers, victims to a ritual Evanor managed to escape from. They find that Silverfall is torn apart by a magician, Sycarion and his occult revolution. They join a group of rebels and seek out the Vessels one by one. Upon succeeding in their mission, they are betrayed by one of their newfound allies who reveals himself to be Sycarion, who succeeds in killing the Empress and takes her place on the throne. The seal on the Sky Gates, however can only be broken by the Dirge of the Empress. The heroes are saved by one of the assassins meant to kill them, Helio, after having witnessed the death of his sister at the hands of the new King, Sycarion. In the end, they realise↵they were in possession of Sycarion's true identity all along, due to the an ancient artifact Helio inherited by killing the leader of an assassin uprising from the Niskaru desert. (The vessels can only be killed by knowing their name???).