The Rotting Hound

By Sam Farren

In Valtir, people worship the unflinching god and give honour to the planets, that the celestial bodies might hold the solar system in a delicate balance.

Each planet sends its Emissary, reborn into mortal flesh, and each Emissary wields its own order of knights.

Vaşak has spent more than half her life serving Saturn as a knight in an order without an Emissary, forsaking the role she was born to play. When autumn brings its omen, heralding the return of the Emissary of Saturn, Vaşak inherits the mask of the First Hound of Dusk.

As the First Hound, she is the Emissary’s shadow, her closest confidant, and sworn protector. Vaşak fulfils the fate her pollution of old once promised, her purpose crystallised within her, and dutifully bears the scars of her devotion.