To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts Volume 12

Cain, convinced that Schaal would replace Elaine as the “holy virgin,” has taken Schaal and left Hank gravely injured… While in captivity, Schaal learns of Cain’s true motives. Are they headed down a road of destruction…?

Cain, convinced that Schaal would replace Elaine as the “holy virgin,” has taken Schaal and left Hank gravely injured… While in captivity, Schaal learns of Cain’s true motives. Are they headed down a road of destruction…?

Intent on stopping Cain Madhouse, Hank and Schaal continue their journey toward New Patria. Along the way, however, they have an unexpected meeting with Arachne. She claims to be acting alone, but her message raises more questions than it answers… Meanwhile, Cain has a reunion with the one man who knows the truth behind the Incarnate project. He holds the key to the Incarnate creation process, which has remained stubbornly beyond Cain’s grasp. What are Cain’s true ambitions? And are Hank’s goals really so different? Those whose fates were upended by the Incarnate project assemble in New Patria for a bloody showdown…

Schaal and Hnk travel to Whitechurch, where Hank hopes to find Cain Madhouse, the man who "loosed the Beasts upon the world." As Hank reveals his complicated relationship with Cain, the journeying duo stumble across a second Beast lurking in Whitechurch that is wreaking havoc among the city's slums out of a twisted sense of justice...

“Over and over our bodies were transformed. Back and forth between human and beast… Bodies and spirits alike shattered… Only the ones who retained their human forms and minds until the end were dubbed Incarnates…” Hank travels back to École, the place where the Incarnates were made, along with Liza and Schaal. There they encounter old phantoms that invite them back into the past…

With the battle won and Fenrir defeated, the return to normalcy should be just around the corner...but not all w ounds are visible. Although Leonhart and his beloved, Sariphi, have overcome many trials together, fear for his queen's safety and doubts about their future are wearing away at the king's heart. Can Sariphi soothe his pain before he doessomething unspeakably rash...?

During a protacted civil war that pitted the North against the South, the outnumbered Northerners used dark magic to create monsterous super-soldiers called Incarnates. Now that the war has ended, those Sacred Beasts must learn to make their way in a peaceful society, or face death at the hands of a Beast Hunter. Nancy Schaal Bancroft, the daughter of an Incarnate, turns to hunting the hunter herself. But once she catches up with her quarry, she discovers hard truths about the lives of these Sacred Beasts.