The first book in the series with the get good at of epic fantasy, Raymond E. Feist. Ten years after the cataclysmic events of Wrath of the Mad God occurred, Midkenia today faces a new danger believed buried in myth and antiquity.

A lost competition of elves, the taredhel or ‘people of the superstars’, have found out a way across the universe to attain Midkemia. On the current home world, these elves are hard pressed by a ravaging demon horde, and that which was once a huge empire has been reduced to a small number of about Trips A Dread Legion survivors. The cornerstone of taredhel lore may be the story of their dropped origins in the globe they call basically ‘House’, a place dropped in the mists of your time. Now they are convinced that Midkemia is certainly that place, and they are arriving at reclaim it.

Ruthless and arrogant, the taredhel intend to let absolutely nothing stand within their way; but before long, Pug and the Conclave realise that it is definitely not the elves, but the demon horde pursuing them where in fact the accurate danger lies. And hanging over Pug always is the prophecy that he’ll be doomed to watch everyone he loves expire before him…