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The rebellious boy of an extended type of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent almost all of his life attempting to flee what contemporary society - and his family - have ordained for him. His own mother has predicted that he'll meet his doom in normal water, blood, and glaciers. Her divination seems fulfilled whenever a comrade abandons Valen in a rainy wilderness half-dead, addicted to an enchantment that turns pain to pleasure, and having only a stolen reserve of maps. Offered sanctuary in a local monastery, Valen discovers that his publication - rumored to lead men in to the realm of angels - gains him entrance into an environment of magic formula societies, doomsayers, monks, princes, and madmen, all wanting to unlock the puzzle of a coming dark years. To his dismay, Valen must face what he fled so long ago, for the key to Navronne's doom is buried in half-forgotten misconception and the secrets of his own former....