Can Sabis be saved? Ancaran hordes swarm her Northern borders. . . Her armies are flung back broken upon her walls. . .Those with the wealth to do so flee daily to the lands beyond the Sea. . . Born of brute force, the Sabirn Empire falls not to an even greater force, a force that only a weapon born half a millenium before its time could withstand. The Sabirn have such a super-weapon--but what if the rulers are too short-sightedd to recognize it, or too tight-fisted to pay the price? Then truly it will be time for--A Dirge for Sabis.