 Alfred wakes up in what he thinks is the Sartan mausoleum on Arianus, but then the other occupants wake up and he discovers they are living Sartan, in fact the very group of Sartan that performed the Sundering of the worlds.They are led by Samah, accompanied by his wife Orla and son Ramu.On Chelestra the mensch races live on seamoons, living rock creatures that drift through the waters of Chelestra, and at the start of the book the three races are planning to leave their current seamoon, because the seasun has drifted too far from this seamoon and it is becoming uninhabitable, and move to another seamoon closer to the seasun.