Enormous armies trample the land of Eteria: cities burn, blood runs like streams. Nations that people had managed to forget emerge from their age-old imprisonment—underground or in the forests. And in the flaming world they traverse, splitting apart and then coming together again, are friends led by Darold Lloyd— not long ago just ordinary boys from the city of Villon, and now warriors who are no strangers to magic. Their path isn’t easy, for ancient powerful beings stand behind them, pursuing secret goals understandable only to themselves.
Where will fate send Darold and his friends this time?
In the fifth book of the cycle “The Chronicles of Eteria,” a grand tapestry of destiny unfolds—not only for individual people, but for an entire world…