" Tayven was not only alive, but had returned in some manner to the life he had known. He was not like Taropat, hidden away. The sketchy picture drawn by the scant words Shad had heard that night did not resemble the portrait Taropat had painted of the beautiful serene mystic. Dangerous? Better? What happened to Tayven after Khaster had fled? How had he survived? "

― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)