Ardan doesn't understand. He knows that momentous changes are happening both within and around him. He was born and raised a simple villager and yet here he is in the center of schemes and counter schemes. Though his father, Warrenk, tries to shield him, Ardan finds himself drawn into the vortex of competing powers for the control of creation itself. The talisman his father wears beacons to him and yet it inspires a fear from deep within. The only thing he knows for sure is the desire he feels for princess Johanna in this the final book of "The Talisman of Darien Kaur."