The Varkh Ascendancy's "Order" is a lie. The "heretical plague" they hunt is empathy.
For 50,000 years, the Varkh has maintained its grip by purging the galaxy's past and engineering its future. But the truth, buried on dead worlds and in the genes of "Virex"...
Instead of going to Oliria, El is suddenly thrust out of the Portal into the island nation of Varu, thousands of miles off course and stranded. Luckily, or unluckily, she meets a self-entitled buccaneer and a crew willing to brave the waves. This is the story...
[center]The formerly pristine Nectar Glen is aflame. Its inhabitants, the winged Aevyormii are beset on all sides by a Parànti race bent on establishing its kingdom on their land.
The only thing protecting those remaining on the battlefield is a warding shield.
And...