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Nomad's latest Skip takes him to a world of deadly sunlight, where he is immediately captured and placed in a fighting arena. There, those who lose are sent out to die in the sun, while the survivors are transformed into [[Investiture|Invested]] warriors. When the arena is attacked by refugees hoping to rescue their captured people, Nomad throws his lot with them, and soon discovers they seek an entrance to mythical lands beneath the ground, where they believe they will find safety.{{ref|name=Preview}}
== Characters ==
*[[Sigzil]] / Nomad / Sunlit Man / Zellion
*[[Auxiliary]]
*[[Cinder King]]
*[[Elegy]]
*[[Rebeke|Rebeke Salvage]]
*[[Divinity]]
*[[Zeal]]
*[[Thomos]]
*[[Adonalsium-Will-Remember-Our-Plight-Eventually]]
*[[Jeffrey Jeffrey]]
*[[Wit]] / Hoid
*[[Solemnity Divine]]
*[[Deborah-James]]
*[[Confidence]]
*[[Compassion]]
*[[Contemplation]]
*[[Faith]]
*[[Night Brigade]]
**Staff Sergeant [[Truth-Is-Waiting]]
**[[Admiral]]
*[[Kal]] (mentioned)
*[[Haridan]] (mentioned)
*[[Adonalsium]] (mentioned)
*[[Zellion (Threnody)|Zellion]] (mentioned)
== Setting ==
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The planet ''The Sunlit Man'' is set on is a small, slowly-spinning world with an elaborate ring system surrounding it. The star it orbits emits vast quantities of both heat and [[Investiture]]. This supercharges the growth of plants - a sown seed can grow and mature fully over the course of a single dawn. However, as the sun rises fully, the extreme temperatures immediately incinerate both the flora and any creatures unfortunate enough to be caught in its light. As such, the planet's human inhabitants are constantly on the move,
They do so in two major ways. Individually, the locals have access to hoverbikes fast enough to outpace the rising sun. Long-term, they live on hovering airships, most of them roughly the size of houses. Fleets of such ships, called columns, can assemble together into mobile cities for the sake of convenience, with flat surfaces that lock together to form roads. When split apart, some of the ships are devoted to farming, sowing seeds that are then harvested during dawn as the columns travel around the planet.{{ref|name=Preview}}
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