It seemed the time had come when the sorcerer could finally lower his magic staff, and the warrior—put his sword back into its sheath. Yet the forces of Darkness are running their ominous, secret game, the stake of which is dominion over all of Crinn.
Once again, the blade of the Knight of Death runs red with the blood of innocent victims. A fiery afterglow flared up into the terrible Battle for Palantás. Raistlin the mage and the warrior Caramon, as if forgetting their kinship, have begun a dangerous duel. No mortal suspected that the Trial of the Twins had begun.