Murder in Candlekeep

In a world where knowledge is power and Candlekeep is its vault, six unlikely souls are drawn into a conspiracy older than kingdoms and darker than hell itself.

When the Keeper of Tomes is murdered under impossible magical circumstances, an eclectic band—composed of a disgraced dragonborn prince, a wererat ranger haunted by his family’s death, a big-mouthed halfling professor, a monk with a debt to the dead, a brooding elven warlock, and a silent feline touched by powers unknown—is tasked with unraveling the truth. But truth is dangerous in Candlekeep. Especially when it sings.

A cursed rhyme whispers through the halls. A forgotten demon-spirit stirs beneath the stacks. And in the shadows, a beholder named Salabur—puppet master, pact-broker, devourer of kings — pulls the strings of war, politics, and memory, one soul at a time. With the continent’s great powers distracted by internal strife, devils breach the veil between planes—and the six are sent on a doomed expedition into the ruins of Mithral Hall, a dwarven metropolis now lost to shadow, rot, and betrayal.

They were sent to die. But death may be the only way out.