After their horrid, soul-destroying fight in the world of Sarkeath, Attelus and his comrades have earned one lead: a name: Inquisitor Soloston of the Ordo Malleus. Soon, he's tracked to the backwater shrine world of Quoranda. But something froths beneath the surface of the oh so puritanical world. Something capable of drowning the entire sector in a sea of agony and decay.