Jonathan Meriweather finds himself plucked from his peaceful university life, and catapulted into a strange new world where beasts walk and talk as men, and where Clothahump, turtle and wizard, stretches his powers of sorcery to their limit, reaching to another universe, seeking help to combat the force of evil emanating from the dreaded Greendowns Jonathan becomes part of a strange fellowship, fighting with sword and song, a spell-singer