With Landrion consumed by his thirst for vengeance beyond the Dragon Spine Mountains, and the other allies of the queen scattered across Sunos like seeds in the wind, Aiyla and Ithar must overcome the dark forces of corruption as they prepare for the coming battle between the Gald'iv and the Serellian. Hope rises in the southern lands in the form of a new king emerging from the ashes of a fallen nation, but as Vardaron and the final Relic of the Third Age teeter on the brink of capture at the hands of Varas and his undead armies, the decimation of humanity seems inevitable.