内容简介：
Daedus is an ex-priest turned soldier. For a decade, he's fought and led the dwindling Fourth Cohort as praefect against the hordes of the Auger Potentates in the Frostmarches. An imperial courier arrives bearing orders to return to the capital at once. However, it soon becomes clear someone in the Markan Senate is setting the stage for a coup and Daedus and his men are pawns in a power play. Their situation worsens with the arrival of Adzutucoatl, an emissary from the jungles of Mictlan. He comes bearing bears gifts in exchange for troops to wage a war against enemies as powerful as the Auger Potentates. What transpires sets into motion events that lead Daedus and his companions on an epic journey into the heart of darkness where they must conquer the treachery of sorcerers and the wrath of a vengeful demi-goddess intent on resurrecting her dark empire with her weapons of wildersteel.