Karkedon is dead. A great evil is removed from the world, but before he died Karkedon bequeathed the true name of his father Veraxus to the ambitious Johaan, the Snow Giant King. Now the great drake is Johaan's slave. Johaan sets out to conquer the the Triune kingdoms of the North, seeking to sunder men, elves and dwarves for his mistress the diabolical Ice Queen Navernya. Fresh from his combat with Karkedon, Tarion Praetorian rides to the North,...