The flames lit by Lodestok and the rogue mage Malekim, that brought the world of Ambros to chaos, still flicker. Will they be quenched or flare again as Ambros struggles to slowly recover? Will there be conflict between the Sinhalien and the Churchik? Who can help avert it?True understanding of the use and power of the mind among those talented finally begins, but comprehension comes about in unexpected ways and partly through a child no one knew existed. Who is the child called Obaron?So, Ambros moves inexorably to balance, though there's instability in the south that has to, finally, be resolved. The Churchik must allow this world rest as they, too, try to find a place in the new order that has to come. The flames that consumed Ambros begin to die.