King Urdo of Caer Tanaga, struggles to bind together the squabbling nobles and petty princes into a unified force to drive out the barbaria invader ad restore the King's Peace. He will change Sulien's life, for she sees him as the greatest hope the country has and he sees her as the greates t warrior. Together they will fight and suffer for an age of the world, for the things that world always needs ad which never last.