Storytelling was outlawed.
When Brent sees the woman in black, she leads him into a menagerie of tunnels beneath the earth where his life falls into the nauseating, but beautiful, Mist of the dea.
His craft was telling stories, but the Order had long forbidden any weaving of tales.
Branded with the black stamp at a young age, Brent thought he would end up a vagrant like his father.
That all changed when the woman in black came to town .
Magic had all but vanished.
Storytelling was outlawed