Doctor Morgenes wrote of his fears that “. . . the time of the Conqueror Star” was surely upon them—whatever that might mean—and that Tiamak’s help would be needed “. . . if certain dreadful things which—it is said—are hinted at in the infamous lost book of the priest Nisses . . .” were to be avoided. But what things? “The infamous lost book . . .”—that was Nisses’ Du Svardenvyrd, as any scholar knew.
