Publisher's blurb:
Pandemonium within the cosmic balance of Universal Magic was not always so. The Ways of the Winding were once a complex web of healing incantations and lovebinding – until the hunting of Carlia Thrarn. Carlia was a noblewoman who fled her comfortable Formar home and found solace in places of nature. Among the trees and mountains Carlia found peace, communing with the creatures of the land, the water, and the sky. The Universe embraced her energy and she became the avatar of the Winding incarnate. She was granted a lifespan of hundreds of years, and saved thousands of lost souls throughout her long existence. Eventually her original identity was discovered by the descendant of a rival noble house, who intended to marry Carlia and subsume her power in order to advance his own personal glory. His advances were spurned, and the bloodbath which ensued claimed the life of the avatar of the Winding along with hundreds of her followers. This also led to the destruction of the nature they dwelled within; plant life, creatures, fresh water sources – all wiped away in the name of jealous vengeance. Carlia was gone, and Pandemonium rose in her place.