Raistlin goes back along the River of Time to the period when Good and the King-Priest ruled the world, when the Cataclysm had not yet happened, and when Istar had not yet sunk to the bottom of the sea, at a time when the most powerful wizard Crin, Fistandantilus, was alive. It is there that Raistlin decides to steal all that power in order to carry out his grand plan—to enter the Abyss, challenge the Mistress of Darkness herself, and take her place among the other gods. Trying to stop Raistlin, the Conclave of Wizards sends Karamon into the past…