Sarai, daughter of Isagol, struggles with her role. Minya has the ability to tether herself to the dead and gains complete control over the ghosts she captures. They have remained in the citadel for 15 years, supporting themselves using their gifts.

Minya, daughter of Skathis, saved 4 babies during the uprising. In the Citadel, several godspawn, the children of the gods, have survived and live unbeknownst to the citizens of Weep. The humans managed to kill the Mesarthim and their spawn, but the Citadel never left. He endures this until he finds his wife Azareen was taken as well. Eril-Fane is forced to spend years with Isagol, goddess of despair. They demanded young men and women be delivered to their citadel, and would return them days, months, or years later, wiped of memories from their time in the citadel. Skathis, leader of the Mesarthim, seems to be the only one able to control the substance. The citadel was their home and is made of a strange blue metal known as mesarthium. Using their special abilities, magical gifts, they easily took over the city. Years earlier, blue-skinned 'gods' called Mesarthim came to the Seraphim worshiping city. Lazlo learns more of the history of Weep. Lazlo and the explorers meet the despondent citizens, who are frightened by the Citadel and the shadow it casts over the city. There are four large towers made of the same material as the citadel dropped around the edges of the city. When they do reach Weep, they find a giant floating Citadel shaped like an angel hovers over it. Weep still struggles with aftereffects, the nature of which Eril-Fane refuses to reveal before they reach the city. 15 years ago, Eril-Fane rose up against the gods and freed the city. They encounter many oddities in their trip, and Eril-Fane tells the history of Weep: once a grand city, 200 years earlier it fell to so called gods. Lazlo manages to barter his way on the expedition along with the arrogant godson of Zosma's Queen, Thyon Nero. Eril-Fane comes from the lost city of Weep, and is looking for people to help with an unknown problem. One day, he encounters a troupe of warriors led by Eril-Fane, the so-called Godslayer. In his teenage years and early adulthood, he becomes an apprentice librarian. He lives with a mundane existence with the monks, dreaming of finding adventure and uncovering lost cities. Lazlo is an orphan by a war that struck his country, who was brought to a monastery by mysterious circumstances. It was published on Maby Little, Brown Books. The story follows Lazlo Strange, a war orphan and librarian in the world of Zosma who undergoes an expedition to the mystic lost city of Weep but discovers it is more than he believed it to be. Strange the Dreamer is a 2017 young adult fantasy novel written by American author Laini Taylor and the first in the Strange the Dreamer duology, followed by Muse of Nightmares.

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