High in the Arbiter's Tower, the tattered remnant of the once proud order struggles to regain normalcy, but they remain haunted by the shadows of so many dead and missing. Elisa, the youngest Arbiter's apprentice, fights her own mind as she tries to remember crucial moments of the past days and weeks and prove her worth to the others... until a strange voice begins speaking in her ear.
The sorcerer Edar Moncrief has spent more than two decades hunting for answers in a blighted and darkened world, and now that he has arrived at the nerve center of it all, finds himself frustrated by a complete lack of any real or concrete answers--until he is told about the Arbiter's Codex, a book containing the thoughts and records of over six hundred past Grand Masters of the Tower, an unbroken record stretching all the way back to the very founding of the world as he knows it. He knows he must have it to slake his desperate thirst for knowledge, but it lies in the hands of the one man who would never give it over to him... D'Arden Tal.
But the worst still awaits them. The Arbiters' paths become murky and unclear as they search for a glimmer of hope in never-ending night. They seek truth in falsehood, to separate purity from corruption... but what will they really have found, when at last they find their CLARITY?
