In the Skraeling Tree, Ulric is kidnapped by Indians, and Ouna sets out to find him. Elric, at the same time, searches in an alternate medieval Europe for the man who created the first Black Blade. On his travels, he meets the incarnation of Gaynor and goes with him to North America. Ouna also moves to America, where he meets Ayanawatha, an Indian leader whom Longfellow sang in his poem under the name Hiawatha. Gradually, all roads converge at the world Tree, and a battle begins there that determines whether the Multiverse will continue to exist or not... Also in the novel: Klosterheim, Sepiris, Prince Lobkowitz, the world serpent and others... The book makes a strange impression - there is a lot of Indian themes in it ( and references to "The Song of Hiawatha"), Scandinavian mythology and a LOT of philosophical reasoning that in some places completely overwhelms the plot.