Original Orbis Tertius - Pompilid

Tanner Magg is a woman of three cities. Of Mahar. Of Jovan. And of Fidelizh. And gorging on three origins, she has grown. With rites and with knowledge... and size. By the glittering of Maharite throat-jewels and satin gloves, by the austere hierarchies of the Jovanian lodges, and most completely, under the aegis of the Golden Parliament of Fidelizh, immersed in the traditions of the Judges of the Golden Door.

Now, she hides her massive back under a judge's robe, swaddles her stone-carved face in ashen ritual decorations and precise inking-goggles, gnaws on sacred confectionaries with her unreasonably large teeth, and weighs her fingers with theurgic quills. All's well - until she's reassigned to an obscure northern colony, where murder festers, and mutants continue to menace humanity. Even so, all seems normal... until a Fidelizhi notable is murdered. A horde of mutants appears on the horizon. And the entire colony is on the verge of collapse.

The sort of situation a Judge ought to be accustomed to. Now, upon Tanner's back, there rests the fate of every single person in this entire wretched colony. Simple enough, really.

Sequel to Orbis Tertius, in the same universe, with different characters. Cover by SorrySorrow