In Arianus, Realm of Sky, humans, elves, and dwarves battle for control of precious water---traversing a world of airborne islands on currents of elven magic and the backs of mammoth dragons. But soon great forces will begin to rend the fabric of this delicate land. An assassin will be hired to kill a royal prince---by the king himself. A dwarf will challenge the beliefs of his people and lead them in rebellion. And a sinister wizard will enact his...

Abarrach, the Realm of Stone. Here, on a barren world of underground caverns built around a core of molten lava, the lesser races-humans, elves, and dwarves-seem to have all died off. Here, too, what may well be the last remants of the once powerful Sartan still struggle to survive. For Haplo and Alfred-enemies by heritage, traveling companions by necessity-Abarrach may reveal more than either dares to discover about the history of Sartan...and the...

While the Lord of the Nexus orders his servant Haplo and Bane, the human child, to further their master's work on Arianus, the resurrected assassin Hugh the Hand seeks to complete his mission.

Mortally wounded, Haplo finds himself at the mercy of Lord Xar, facing a fate worse than death. Xar plans to resurrect Haplo - bringing him back to life as one of the tormented living dead.