The first installment in the New York Times-bestselling epic fantasy
trilogy about twin rivals Raistlin and Caramon, set in the magical
Dragonlance universe.
The War of the Lance has ended, and the darkness has passed. Or has
it?
Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in
Palanthas, and surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, archmage
Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness--to bring it under
his control.
Two people alone can stop him. One is Crysania, a beautiful and devoted
cleric of Paladine, who tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the
darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly
into his neatly woven trap.
The other is Raistlin's twin, Caramon. Made aware of his brother's plan,
a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in
the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present
kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlin's soul.