Synopsis: The House of Enthala is dead - put to the sword by their own trusted stewards, who seek to rule the world of Rehannoth themselves. The Old Lords were wise, if distant, rulers. Since the time before memory they kept the world safe under their benevolent protection. Now they are gone - and all that remains of their once mighty race are two small, helpless children, too young to have learned the Mysteries of their kind, the strange telepathic powers of the Old Lords. They are no threat to the new dictators. But children grow up... (adapted from the back cover of the Ace edition)