When Scotland Yard involved the Professor and his young ward Martin
Kingswraith in the strange case of the 'Depleted Men', neither of
those skilled white wizards, or Lux Texentes, could foresee the
terrible dangers they would face. In the soot-coated cobbled
streets of late Victorian London, Kingswraith must overcome his
greatest challenge or perish in the attempt. Kingswraith would
receive help from the strangest quarters, not least Penelope
Epimeliad and the mysterious children who haunted the stone forests
of London town, children who had once been tree sprites in
Britain's magnificent primordial woodlands when mammoths still
trumpeted in the frozen wilds. The children now lived in a vast
Roman reservoir under the Tower of London, from which they would
emerge as a force of good, dedicated to fighting evil, bringing aid
and comfort to the innocent, and food to the downtrodden masses. It
was they who created the Depleted Men, actually wicked murderers,
using ancient enchantments to suck the minerals from the killers'
bodies, leaving behind a shell of soft, jelly-like protein.
Penelope recognises Kingswraith's unique qualities as a scion of
the house of Pendragon and she brings her own immense powers to
bear to prepare him for his inevitable battle against sinister
Haven Slighe, one of the ten Viventem Nominis Umbra, or malevolent
Lords of Living Shadow. Slighe is a forceful mage. He and his nine
fellows are a pitiless force of darkness driven towards reducing
civilisation to its lowest possible ebb so they feed from
humanity's despair. They will encourage any wickedness, drunkenness
and lechery, until the whole population is lost without God or hope
of redemption. The Lux Texentes has been standing in their way, but
the Umbra has been cutting them down at every opportunity. To take
Kingswraith, Haven Slighe captures the Professor. To save him
Kingswraith must face Slighe alone, and afraid.
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