Before the Smoke

Anakara is a corrupted continent, home to mythical creatures, vampires, werewolves, witches, magicians, adventurers, lorekeepers, disciples, cultists and questionable nobles and merchants—many secretly tied to the cults and guilds in criminal world.

Elsa is a independent thief and former member of The Jackdaw Circle. After a job involving a mystic book goes disastrously wrong, she runs away to Skenderia district, in the south. Returning to her isolated home near, she finds a letter, sealed with a double-head dragon, from Isabella, her friend, theleader of Myth. The message is simple but urgent: Elsa is asked to serve as a tutor for the magician wife of Skenderia's Lord.