A girl with the druidic magic of her mother and her father's need for light to survive is lost in the comparably barbaric world below her peaceful mountain home. Her father is lost to her and possibly dead when they escape, leaving her in the care of her Ox-Man companion who cannot speak. As she makes her way through the land below, she meets a series of people who an enchantment leads her to. Each has unique abilities and arrive just in time to help her when she needs it most. The people searching for her won't give up easily though. She makes her way from island to island in the vast world...

As the Season of White deepens, Anthea finds herself in Uleaut lands. A young hunter named Tuari tries to teach them their ways, so they might survive in their harsh, frozen land. This becomes the setting for trials and doubts. Each of them questions their purpose even as the Gods give them nudges in the direction they should go. Back in the Broken Crown, Corydon battles with madness and long lost spirits. His general, Illias, begins a campaign of destruction and terror meant to bring the Kerathi to their knees. Iago, the Grand Helion's chief advisor, sits like a spider in a web of spies,...

Anthea returns to the Broken Crown with her companions, though Bedros must part to fulfill his own destiny. Her return spurs Corydon into new experiments, experiments he hopes will make a living compass to find Anthea with. Illias pushes Corydon's war ever further from the shores of Maethlin, even as Iago and the Elegian Empress Sanura begin to add their contributions to the conflict. With the looming threat of the Elegians joining the Kerathi side of the conflict, Corydon decides to make every citizen of Cenalium into one of his puppets to greater equip his war machine. Iago isn't ready to...

Overshadowing all are the three great powers that pull the strings to this bloody dance: the Gods, the Lost Ones, and the spirit of the world that is embodied in the Ox-Men. A God walks the world in the flesh. The prophesized gather. Creations of dark magic and blood stalk those who would save the world. Those who were hidden are revealed, and the true state of the world is shown. Anthea emerges a changed being, and the whole Broken Crown goes to war behind her and her companions. As the game of tug-of-war for the world's fate enters its final stage, who will win and who will lose, and what...

Anthea must find a way back to the material world if she is to meet with the forces that gather on her behalf. Sagira and Makan have been busy trying to convince the Aynglicans to go to war, and Rolf and Nishan have secured her another army. The Elegians battle to keep the invaders away from their capitol, even as Corydon plans to take another Grancitta, which might give him enough soldiers to finish the war against the united peoples of the Broken Crown. Iago has risen to power, but he looks for a way to strike at Corydon, who remains unassailable in the city of Cenalium, where everything...