THE CORPSE KING

After years of nothing but grueling training and the desperate dance of death that is the life of an acolyte Arbiter, D�Arden Tal has been named an apprentice. He has been assigned to learn from Havox Khaine, one of the greatest Masters in living memory. For two years they have traveled across the known world, and now they enter a tiny kingdom on the edge of nowhere. Rumors abound that the monarch of this kingdom is insane, and has created a demented puppet court... of the dead. D�Arden must learn what it truly means to be an Arbiter, as he makes his first real confrontation with the horrors of corruption. Something much worse lurks within the shadows of the king�s mind than simple madness, and D�Arden will find reason to call him... The Corpse King.