A Drow wizard from the hidden depths beneath Arkaven, Draevyn Vexir walks the surface where his kind is rarely welcome. He abandoned the rigid doctrines of the Old Path to join a fractured city striving for change. Then the king turned to stone. His mastery of transmutation makes him useful, and suspect. Violet arcane fire coils in his hands, controlled, precise, dangerous. In a city ruled by fear and rumor, Draevyn studies the curse that turned the king to stone, while others study him.