After the great and bloody war in which the peoples of all the free lands, even those of peaceful Orthlund, stood together against the evil of Dan-Tor and Sumeral's dark battalions, Sumeral is dead. His body is destroyed; his will scattered across worlds unknowable. Travellers radiate out from Anderras Darion and Cadwanen, seeking to know more of the lands beyond Fyorland and Orthlund. But soon they return with others, such as Antyr, the Dream Finder, and Thyrn, the Caddoran. Their different voices together yield a terrifying revelation - Sumeral is whole again, and struggling to return, and perhaps there is worse in store, even, than that...