The thirteen gods and magicians of Horea are at war, and their schemes ensnare the simple fisherman Daasek. Daasek returns from the Great Sail to discover that something has changed in his home port of Myniah. He is taken captive and brought to the magician Nyxx, who needs someone to act as his agent of death. And Daasek is selected. Mindless and soulless, Daasek is forced to travel across Horea in search of the other twelve magicians. As he does,...