title: Sedich: The Annals of Lusiartha (Volume 1)
author: R. Ann Humphries
description: R. Ann Humphries is a writer, casual gamer, and anime enthusiast living in North Carolina with her two weenie dogs. Her story addiction started early, when her father made her sit down and watch every episode of the original Star Trek at a young, impressionable age. Hopelessly hooked from that point on, she jumped from story to story to get her fix before finally deciding it was time to create her own. You can find her on Facebook, The Independent Author Network, and GoodReads.
zlib_text: **Philip Athans**
  
   **Sembia 01 - The Halls of**
  
   **Stormweather**
  
   **Edited by**
  
   **Proofread and formatted by BW-SciFi**
  
   **Ebook version 1.0**
  
   **Release Date: July, 18 **th** , 2008**
  
   _A tale in seven parts set within the walls of the_  
   _mighty city of Selgaunt, which sits perched on_  
   _the northern coast of the Sea of Fallen Stars_  
   _in the realm of Sembia._  
   _It is winter in the Year of the Unstrung Harp,_  
   _1371 by Dalereckoning. Sembia, guided by_  
   _the many hands of her prosperous merchant_  
   _princes, thrives._  
   _Here we meet one of Sembia's powerful_  
   _merchant lords and his family, the Uskevren._
  
   **THE PATRIARCH**
  
   **The Burning Chalice**
  
  Ed Greenwood
  
   **"Any** _ ****_**more business?" the head of House Uskevren asked calmly
  over the rim of his raised glass.**
  
   **The lamplight flickered on the last sweetened ices and the wines served
  with them. The slight ripple of his set jaw behind it was the only hint of the
  disgust Thamalon Uskevren felt at