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- A shadow wizard on a bat manta, terrorizing the Shadowed Realm.
- A wizard of the Lyceum Arcanum, in secret service to a shadow wizard, safeguarding the Umbra Stone until it can fulfill its dark purpose.
- A Cymrilian Swordmage, battling desperately aboard a flaming airship.
- The Council of Kings meets in Cymril, not knowing of the plots against their lives.
- A Phantasian sorcerer, marooned in the Shadow Realm, with urgent evidence of a magical crime.