After a violent storm in January 1647 in the Netherlands, votive stones and altars with texts and reliefs referring to an unknown goddess named Nehalennia were found on a beach in Zeeland. It was, and still is, incorrectly maintained in history that she was a goddess who belonged to a local cult. This happened not only because of the tunnel vision of researchers, but also because information was demonstrably and consciously withheld. As a result, Nehalennia acquired the stature of a legend.

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Taipya need to feed on the flesh of people in order to survive.

Emyav, a taipya raised among the race of niidalard, is horrified when she learns what she really is.

She travels the world in hopes of finding the ingredients to a suppressant for her growing hunger before she feeds again — or is killed by the hunters after her.