In revenge for the death of his son, the sorcerer-king Brandin Igrat hides the very name of the captured land from memory—slaughtering its defenders and scattering the peninsula’s brothers and sons across the Ladon hand like ashes. But memory cannot be killed. It is reborn and becomes a force capable of resisting the tyrant’s magic. The son of the dead prince Tiyani Alessan takes on hundreds of disguises, weaving a conspiracy, recruiting followers, and subjecting the ancient sorcery of Ladon to his will. The battle in which he will face Brandin head-on begins.