This book continues the story of Lord Captian Gath, as he now is, while he travels with his friends to the Prince's Isle. It tells of his struggles against the fate that has been laid down for him by the gods in the Book of Fates in the First of Times, The book records the fates of all the Princedom from the highest to the lowest down to the smallest insect to the leaves on a tree. He is recorded the fates of others: of Tyaneesa Vincenni or Paresia; of first Dasteen of the Trader's house on Seyton; of Soj Ecken himself as well as others that he summons to his service; and of one Andy Melviney.