Young journeyer Wynn Hygeorht sets out with her companions, the vampire Chane Andraso and Shade, an elven wolf, in search of a dwarven stronghold that may well be the last resting place of a mythical orb--one of five such mysterious devices from the war of Forgotten History. And now a direct descendant of that war's infamous mass murderer--the Lord of Slaughter--is tracking Wynn. If only that were all she had to worry about....