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Within a kingdom on the verge of your grand renaissance, where natural technology has supplanted declining sorcery, someone is designed to regenerate a savage rivalry...For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed pupil of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the catalogue at Sabria's previous collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship or grant. However when the king of Sabria charges him to research an attempted murder that has troubling magical resonances, Portier feels his dreams of a larger destiny might finally be fulfilled. As the king's new agente confide, Portier - much to his dismay - is partnered with the popinjay Ilario de Sylvae, the laughingstock of Sabria's judge. Then the need to infiltrate a magical cabal leads Portier to Dante, a brooding, great young sorcerer whose heretical ideas and penchant for violence threaten to expose the analysis before it's started. But in an ever-shifting panorama of murders, betrayals, old secrets, and unholy sorcery, the three agentes will be required to test the boundaries of magic, characteristics, and the divine...