The seven shards of the Shattered Star have been recovered, and thePathfinders prepare a grand festival on Magnimar's Irespan to celebrate thisincredible achievement. The culmination of this celebration is to be thereassembly of the seven shards into the legendary Sihedron itself, rebuilt forthe first time in over ten thousand years. But a lot can change in that amountof time, and as the ritual to reforge the artifact finishes, ancientcontingencies rumble to life, and as the dead heart of Thassilon begins to beatonce again, all of Magnimar is put in terrible danger. With the power of theSihedron on their side, the heroes take a stance against this risen evil —but will the aid of an ancient artifact be enough to save them all?
The final chapter in the Shattered Star Adventure Path, The DeadHeart of Xin is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for15th-level characters. This volume also includes an essay on the ancientRunelords of Thassilon, complete with threads that reach to the modern day, plusnew monsters fill the Pathfinder Bestiary and Bill Ward's Pathfinder Journalfiction concludes its exploration of the seedy underbelly of the scoundrel havenof Riddleport.