As the title says, here is the first chapter in Crown of Souls, the Quintessence Cycle Book 3. (Remember this is content before it has seen the editor.)

The yellowed infection of mineral deposits spread along the mountainside opposite and below Keedar Giorin. A honeycomb of mines pockmarked the rock face like entrances to the Ten Hells. Smoke billowed up from the brick ovens scattered across the incline. Noxious. Acrid. A henhouse filled with rotten eggs. Despite th...