Compendium Monstrorum: The Archivist's Apprentice

"I'm going to pour a drink. One for me, and one for the ghosts. You should do the same. Because as we move into the final chapters, the air is going to get colder. We're moving away from the monsters that want to eat you, and toward the monsters that want you to stay exactly as you are-broken, guilty, and waiting for a tomorrow that never comes." As a shadow war escalates across two worlds, an apprentice inherits the Healing Blade and the burden of the Violet Files. From the neon-rot of American sprawl to the lithic-saturated roads of Rome, this compendium catalogs the entities that hunt the living. Led by the seasoned Silas, the ghost-like Weaver, and the weary Father Vittorio the apprentice learns the "Numbers of the Damned." It is a survival guide for a world where every road leads to the Pit and every smile hides a cage. The watch has begun..