Restored to a working body system, Morgan Locke offers returned to Troth to seek the legendary athenaeum at Vigil in the hopes it will create a answer to the enchantment binding the elves. But elves are not the only animals now moving out of folklore: the demons are coming, and they provide with them the armies of the dead.

If they usually do not want to see their world consumed, Morgan and his companions must get the answers, if they result from books… or bloodshed. Period is working out….