Veteran wizard Greylsan Amberglass, ostensibly on a mission to gather chronicles from The Fourth Council's entowered wizards, follows the trail of a doomed borderland margrave in search of his corrupted and dying land's missing Arcory Stones. The search leads him through the Alliance of the Thirteen Greater and Lesser Kingdoms to frightening truths about how the magic is being conducted in the kingdoms and disturbing answers to own his quest. But nothing is going to stop him. Not wyrms, giants, witches, the source behind his faltering magic or even threats of one of his own. He will finish his quest, no matter the cost. For it may be his last.