In the palace of Princess Vasilisa on the flying island of Windflower, Virgil Blue - world-walker, magician, madman - continues his sprawling narrative of the events surrounding the Succession of the Aeon. In Mydmos, Professor Higginbottom - engineer, scholar, saboteur - tutors a most unusual prince. In Ureom's Folly, Victorinox - space-farer, inventor, diabolist - hunts a deadly foe while coming to terms with the disaster that shattered his life. The last sane man in a cursed city, Ovidio Kinmak - warden, surgeon, necromancer - struggles to piece together his shattered citizens. From simple wood-gatherer to bold adventurer, Ludlow the Lazy - peasant, trickster, king - is driven by the winds of prophecy and by the legends of Baba Yaga's Hut. From peasant huts to royal palaces, from cursed cities to distant planets, the magical and much-coveted furnishings of Baba Yaga's dancing hut are sought by elite collectors everywhere. To join their numbers, one must first become . . . A Lord of Three