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The return of the mercenary company, the Crimson Shield, could not have come at a worse time for a Malazan Empire tired by warfare and weakened by betrayals and rivalries. Indeed, there are those who ponder if the Empress Laseen might not be losing her hold on power as she encounters increasing unrest as conquered kingdoms and principalities sense independence once more. In to the seething cauldron of Quon Tali - the Empire's heartland - marches the Shield. With their return comes the storage area of the Empire - and yet all is not well with the Shield itself. Elements within its elite, the Avowed, have place their places on far greater power. There are traditional entities who also seek to help expand their own arcane ends. And what of the swordsman called Traveller who, with his companion Ereko, has gone in search of a confrontation from which none have ever returned? As the Shield prepares to salary war, so Laseen's own generals and mages, the "Old Hands," develop impatient at what they see as her mismanagement of the Empire. But could Laseen have outwitted them all? Could she be using the uprisings to draw out and lastly eliminate these previous irksome survivors from the times of her illustrious forerunner, Kellanved?
