valley blanketed by cloud such that they never see the sky) and develops his ability as a healer, as well as discovering how to learn languages quickly through the use of psinoma. Alyssa and the ghosts continue to guide him as he attempts to maintain the bargain he made with the first Ancient on Vadanis. When Terrel's task on Macul is finished, he learns that he must journey onward and further from home. The Crystal Desert Two oceans away from his homeland of Vadanis, Terrel finds himself in the harsh desert land of Misrah. There he is accepted by a nomadic tribe called the Toma, but soon learns that not all is well in this country - the Kullana river (the main source of water) has completely dried up and a shortage of water supplies across the region is leading to honourless and brutal warfare among an increasing number of the tribes. To make matters worse, a large number of desperately hungry groups of refugees from the northern lands are moving south through the desert in an increasingly hopeless bid to reach the sea. Also, a sickness is going around the land which makes its sufferers refuse to drink water. Terrel realizes that another elemental which lives in the mountain of Makranash in the middle of a vast forbidding desert is somehow the cause of this, and joins the Toma's team in an annual race between the desert's tribes to this sacred mountain. Once there, he petitions the elemental to undo the evil that it has done. The Red Glacier Now Terrel finds himself in the war-torn land of Myvatan, where war has reigned for three hundred and forty years, since the last great conclave, and only a few wizards know what started it. And now Tofana, the greatest wizard of the black quarter, wants to control a power that he holds the key to as well. The most brutal of the forces of nature are going to be used to fight this ever escalating battle... But his task though has nothing to do with the inhabitants, but to do with the elemental in the heart of the mountain at the lonely peaks, surrounded by a glacier of epic proportions. The journey will be difficult but that is nothing compared to the healing that awaits him at the end. Alyssa's Ring The conclusion. Terrel has returned to the Island of