Sealanders don't believe in gods. Meeting one on a clifftop one morning does, however, alter your perspective. Plucked from his comfortable home and sent to be bard to King Rhofarn (a man with little interest in music) Caedun is lonely and terrified. But the god has given him a task - to ensure the emergence of three strong kings and hence guarantee the survival of the northern nations. And Caedun would really try to do it, if his own survival wasn't looking alarmingly uncertain... In another country a fostered child reveals an astonishing magical talent - or maybe not so astonishing, given...