After returning from the castle of the ancient vampires with Lisil and Magier, Wynne Hygeort returns to Colmsitt, to the House of the Guardians' Guild, with texts supposedly written during the Forgotten History and the Great War. Her superiors seize these texts and Wynne's diaries, and call her stories crazy fantasies. But the guild's scientists begin to decipher the texts, sending them to scriptoria for copying. One night, several pages of texts disappear, and the guardians who delivered them are found murdered. In the guild, Winn trusts no one and, left without the support of friends, she goes on her own in search of ancient texts, not even suspecting that she will soon find allies from unexpected quarters...