A moment of truth arrives when everyone must decide why they lived and for what they would be capable of dying. Incredible forces gather at the Sunken Crab, a deserted island in the middle of the seas of Eviál. From now on, in its skies and in the dungeons of a great pyramid built on it, the fate of the worlds and of all the Ordered is decided. Here the gods lead the human host to victory, and people reach out to help them in trouble. Here crafty spells shatter against the fortress of will and love. Here, too, death is henceforth only a step toward a new happy life. Here ends the story of the mage Kár Laéda, the necromancer Neyasyt, the warrior Fess—so unlike a fairy tale—because everything told in it is true.