The pieces and pawns placed on the great chessboard of the Orderly One began to move. Rakot and Raina encounter the revived power of the Ancient Gods, Silvia the Nagual storms the Valley of the Magi, Clara Hummel, having freed her children, goes in search of her missing husband, Matthew Isidorti and the harpy Gelerra are preparing to rush into the unknown, and Hedin the Knower of Darkness goes to the very heart of darkness, to the boundaries of the domain of the Unnameable. Do they all act by their own will? Who are the players that made them move? Or are the suspicions that all these details of some truly grandiose plan are groundless?