Antjen Engers is a human barbarian who sustained a major head injury in the same raid that killed his family. After extensive wandering, he has found a new family in the form of a wolf pack.  But all is not well. After a group of goblins intrudes on the pack's land, Antjen feels the pull of a rift in the land that leads deep into the earth.  This is the fourth story in this series.

Sideshow the tiefling rogue is being held prisoner by his employer, the Cirque Lunaire. While most of the troupe's income is earned by his presence alone, they treat him as a pariah, locking him up in a cage with a palladium collar around his neck to diminish his magics.  Following their most recent performance, a new bard has joined their troupe. Sideshow can tell that he is not all that he seems, however, and he is hiding some secret magics as well. 

Delaynie Fairwater is a half-orc ranger, a gloomstalker who spends a lot of time in the Underdark. A bounty is just the incentive she needs to clean out some filthy warrens of their orcish inhabitants.

Joslin "Lucky" Kastor, a bard-sorcerer, wants to add one more hyphen to his class as he gains infernal power from a pact with the devil Mathlomathlomathlomathlomath. Music credit: "Flight" by Nctrnm, found here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nctrnm/EQUINOX/NctrnmFlight95Am