Part One: Dramatis Personae.................... 15
Chapter One: The Balancer, Balked.................... 17
Chapter Two: The Necromancer Leaves Home.................... 19
Chapter Three: Vesper's Prey.................... 23
Chapter Four: Fire, Water, and Thorns.................... 35
Chapter Five: Maintaining the Guard.................... 53
Part Two: Guarded and Unguarded Lands.................... 65
Chapter Six: A Thousand Towers.................... 67
Chapter Seven: The Graith.................... 73
Chapter Eight: Under Weigh.................... 105
Chapter Nine: Encounter off Tenagöros.................... 113
Chapter Ten: The Wreck of the Flayer.................... 129
Part Three: The Gods of Kaen.................... 131
Chapter Eleven: The Purple Patriarchy.................... 133
Chapter Twelve: Many Mouths.................... 159
Chapter Thirteen: The Sheep and the Goat.................... 175
Chapter Fourteen: God in Exile.................... 197
Chapter Fifteen: The Golden Road.................... 213
Part Four: The Shadows of Old Azh.................... 219
Chapter Sixteen: The Way Forward.................... 221
Chapter Seventeen: Making.................... 229
Chapter Eighteen: Old Azh Above.................... 243
Chapter Nineteen: Old Azh Below.................... 251
Part Five: A Masque of Powers.................... 259
Chapter Twenty: The Sisters.................... 261
Chapter Twenty-One: Voyage of the Boneglider.................... 281
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Waste Lands.................... 287
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Temptation of St. Danadhar.................... 301
Chapter Twenty-Four: Sleigh Ride.................... 313
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Binding of Andhrakar.................... 331
Chapter Twenty-Six: Between Two Thrones.................... 343
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Supple Confusions.................... 355
Appendices.................... 361
A. The Lands of Laent during the Ontilian Interregnum.................... 363
B. The Gods of Laent.................... 365
C. Calendar and Astronomy.................... 367
D. The Wardlands and the Graith of Guardians.................... 373
E. Note on Ambrosian Legends.................... 375
