The Quarter Queen

Part One Heart of Stone

Part One

Heart of Stone

For it is said that the alchemists have a most forbidden incantation among them, more nefarious than other spells, rituals, and rites of transmutation, the cursed words: Turn your heart to stone.

Said with enough intent, and with the right touch of magic, these few words transform hearts and destroy the most stalwart of minds.

—Sanite Dede, Quarter Queen II, chapter excerpt from her primordial grimoire, On the Brotherhood of the White Hand and Their Fraternal Order