"The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened -- with what I fear is coming -- I am not sure it matters anymore. I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything -- and now, impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me across three separate worlds. A different version of myself in each of Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives. I have to hide; fight; play politics. I have to train; trust; lie. I have to kill; heal; prove myself again, and again, and again. I am loved, and hated, and entirely alone. I need to find a way to stop the coming Cataclysm, because if all I have learned is true, I may be the only one who can."-- Provided by publisher.
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