In a land of lights and shadows of things that are and want to be, a nomadic tribe is threatened with certain doom. A darkness roams the northern steppes, crowned with horns, and yet enslaved. What powers lurk beyond the dangers that the roaming river-people will have to face as they battle for their survival in the east? Their new chieftain, Authaen, seems ill-prepared to meet the looming danger. Meanwhile, a mighty wanderer has trekked into the...