Sephie returns to a ruined Meridian. Her "topside" forces pack the remaining Cadadorian soldiers onto ships bound for Cadador...

Ambushed by the Cadadorian armada, Sephie is surprised by a visit from another Sigil-Bearer, Samandahl Rey...

Ilahn, on his way to Meridian with Reesha, hears the news of Torbel and orders his forces to strike...

Sephie's pirates continue to harass the ships on Cadador's trade route to prove Ilahn can be stopped...

Sephie's quest to rally support against Ilahn finds her en route to Massisntak, the step city, accompanied by a trio of loggers, a few caverns dwellers, and Deren Beq, whose stories of Sephie are outracing their flight...

Sephie defeats the Celanaugs (and surprises herself) by discovering she can tap into a new level of power...giving her flight and allowing her to shove the monsters away from the city...

Sephie, disturbed by what she learns about Ilahn, is provoked into a confrontation. She storms away from his estate and sets sail for Meridian...

Ilahn, on his way to Meridian with Reesha, waits to see who will be the victor: Sephie or Rho.

While fighting the Cadadorian armada, Sephie is surprised by a visit from another Sigil-Bearer, Samandahl Rey....

Monster
Meredith the Mage came to Boroda with her living skyship and crew to seek the aid of her son, Bors.

Trial by Wildfyre

You can tell when some things are about to happen..you can feel it. Others slip by. You just don't realize things are about to change. Forever. I wish I'd had some warning that day...

On Meridian we kept true to the old ways..Other cities rushed to grow, adding ore pods to their bottoms so they could add mass topside..but we preferred to keep things in balance. "When need and want in balance rest, tension is barred and work is best"

In Meridian, when people die, we light a pyre and gather..remembering their lives in thought or story until we're ready to let them go. Then we send their spirit to the stars as we scatter their ashes to the wind.

When they said that Cadador had invaded Meridian, my mind jumped right to horror stories of war from Pre-Cataclysm days, and I pictures something bloody and awful. I forgot that an army like a business comes down to just People..and the people of Meridian are strong.

Far away on the world of Demetria, explosions rocked the surface and gigantic rocks shot into the sky and stayed there. Settlers established great city-states on these ore buoyant islands, using floating ships to move between them. One of these islands is Meridian.