From the author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of mercenaries hired to deliver a church's ultimate power--a sacred oracle--as the decadence of carnival gives way to the gravity of lent and the mystic landscape grows ravenous. A VINTAGE ORIGINALSheltering beneath Das Kagel, the cloud-scraping structure rumored to be the Tower of Babel, the sacred Monastery of the Eastern Gate descends into bedlam. Their ancient oracle, Quite Testiyont--whose proph