<p>For seven thousand turns, the Ta'el have searched the ruins of the human world for the answer to one quesiton:&nbsp;What fel events wiped the humans from the Earth?</p><p><br></p><p>On this day, Ayasha joins all those Ta'el that have gone before in the task of answering that question.&nbsp;Yet, she finds that achieving the culmination of a lifetime of training, the title of Stone of the Hearth, is not at all as she expected when she is named the Speaker.</p><p><br></p><p>Attempting to decipher the elusive portents of her new name reveals events in their world unlike any known to her people.&nbsp;With the magic of the Ta'el failing, the secret behind her name may be the only hope there is.</p><p><br></p><p>Chasing that secret leads Aya deeper into the murky past than any Ta'el has gone before.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unearthing the answers to the eons old question is only a single piece of the puzzle.&nbsp;Dredging free what remains pits her against creatures not of her reality, and maybe something much worse.&nbsp;A left-behind truth that sets their world on the edge of a ruin that will finish what the long-dead humans began.</p>