<p>Corrupted diarch of Caemeris, Baachelaus, with his gaoler Voloc,<br/>breach the world of Arglethium. They are pursued by Assumpta,<br/>co-ruler of Caemeris, who has been doomed to an eternal quest to<br/>set Baachelaus free.<br/>A prism forged in the last days of Caemeris from the tears of<br/>Assumpta is hidden on Arglethium by the custodian Norbu.<br/>Lusting to seize control of the power within the prism, Voloc<br/>possesses the despot Ranik and sets the Kingdoms of the Middling<br/>lands to war to seek out the sacred tears.<br/>Assumpta calls the ancestors of the fi rst tribes of Arglethium, Ange<br/>Tsaed desert dweller, Gildas Gol exiled warrior, Kado heir to the<br/>Drax Empire and Sa-Tuc assassin, to fulfi l a covenant made in the<br/>beginning days with Norbu to protect the prism.<br/>Suspicious of the gods, but with no choice as their world spirals<br/>toward annihilation, Ange, Gildas, Sa-Tuc and Kado are drawn<br/>into the mysteries of the prism, and an an