Ubilas, Lord of the Abyss, God of the Dead, is loosed. Bound for a thousand years for his rebellion against his father Alu, Ubilas chafed, his anger burning; he now releases his dark army on an unsuspecting land. The future of the world rests on a pessimistic and unexceptional thief, and a bitter, conflicted half-breed youth who is also the most powerful magicker ever known. If each of them cannot become something he is not, and overcome something...