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The entities known as the Beings of Old have long since staked claims to most of that gem-shaped manifold which is existence. Their alien, furtive, and impenetrably distant politicking has ebbed and flowed throughout past ages, beyond the awareness of most thinking creatures… and recently, it has begun to accelerate. For Sebastio Artaxerxes – and many civilians outside reality’s facets, especially in the transcendent city of Rhaagm – interest in such matters becomes far more pressing after a madman decides to claim a relic of one of the Olds. Sebastio’s demons tell him that fighting the man he once called friend will only end in tears. His soul tells him that tears are only shed by the living, and that the living at least may overcome regrets with time and effort.

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Listings of segments lie below:

1. Ad Monstrorum
2. A Dreaded Unkindness
3. A Dreaded Immortal
4. A Dreaded Incomprehension
5. Interlude Amidst Administration
6. A Dreaded Sword
7. A Dreaded Dark
8. Interlude Amidst Abstraction
9. A Dreaded Composite
10. A Dreaded Homecoming
11. Interlude Amidst Suns
12. A Dreaded Decompression
13. A Dreaded Kinship
14. A Dreaded Exit
15. A Dreaded Requisition
16. Interlude Amidst the Tower
17. A Dreaded Welcome
18. A Dreaded Matrimony
19. Interlude Amidst Scheming
20. A Dreaded Sanctuary
21. A Dreaded Scrimmage
22. Ex Sol