This book is about the origin and destruction of a dalain—a world created by the Creator, the old Ten’gar, who was worn out by centuries of fighting the many-armed spawn of the abyss, Yoorol-Guem, who hates all living things. He decided to create a world specifically for the Many-Armed—simply so that it wouldn’t interfere with his thoughts about eternity. In this world, created by devilish standards and for the habitation of the devil, a person created in the image and likeness of God is doomed from the beginning to be a sacrifice to the devil. But by Ten’gar’s will, once every generation in the dalain a human is born who can change it so that there will be no room for the Many-Armed itself. No one has managed it—until Shooran appeared…