A Fantasy Iorn has known peace since the Valkires claimed the Stone Seat and Tyravich Fauconheyn was killed in single combat, yet beyond its borders exist still enemies old and new. Evenstand patrols the Dry Sea to the north. Drawl moves its armies with worrying haste. And the Free People to the south have soured over old crusades. Worse still, the mountains to the west hide a terrible vengeance, and Geoff Cloudtoucher must test old friendships and new powers to convince nations on the brink of war to come together.