The third volume in the Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series. 'Lord Alagrace said you'd help.' 'Any oracle can give you a reading,' replied Yen Olass. 'I told Alagrace an oracle couldn't help me,' said the Ondrask. 'I told him I wasn't interested in a reading. But he told me you'd do better than that. He told me you'd fix it.' 'What?' said Yen Olass. She was genuinely shocked, and it took a lot to shock her. So begins Yen Olass' involvement in the life-long feud of the warlords of the Collosnon Empire. She was to witness war, madness and wizardry, and would play a greater part in the events of her time than a mere oracle had any right to expect.