Fireworks over Fairhaven — A deadly performance with elephants — Leth is captured — The royal spy gives an ultimatum — Tivara conspires with Darla of Wyr — Kaster enters the fighting ring one-armed — A savage fight at The Endless Arsenal — Kaster lifts a piano — The trio victorious — Brainstorming the sports of the future — Subtly manipulating Lord Morgaux — A quick trip to Grimhaven

A madman in the rain — At the sign of the Scarlet Rooster — Leth and her plan — A night visit to the Fairhold — Searching for the dark world — The royal beast handler — Rescuing the beasts — The wedding — A royal reception — Donnerjack makes a deal — Kaster meets the Queen — House Vadalis enters the picture — An ominous message — Rendezvous in the hedge maze — Children of death — Three paths — A dragon’s breath

The Mark of Death — Allrienne flies again — The road back home — Hadrian’s return — Donnerjack starts a business — Arrival in Fairhaven — Seven swords — Clara-Dael’s gratitude

The thing that killed the unicorns — Donnerjack tames a dead horse — The Walking Isles in the Sea of Grass — A dangerous climb — A people in tune with the elements — Audience with the Elders — Becoming people of the Plains — Micco’s challenge — The Pool of Tranquility — Flashbacks

The loyalty of a wild beast — Into the pristine wilderness — Hunting with raptors — Massacre of the red birds — A skeleton in the clearing — Theren’s mark exposed — On the flail snail trail — A hunter far from home — Night on the ridge — The quantum squirrel — To Cindervale — A trap for sacrificial animals — Cindermaw rises — To be devoured by a god — Twice-born — Micco’s hard-earned respect

Outsiders among the Moon Clan — A conversation with the elder — Micco advocates violence — News of the Black Rider — To the rescue of the Vadalis expedition — Raptor nests on the mesa — The Moon Maidens meet House Vadalis — Negotiations — The power of tradition and the power of progress — The scarlet raptors unleashed — Throatripper returns — The taming of the beasts — A tenuous peace — Eastward-bound again — The Black Rider’s grim work

A black figure in the ashen field — The flying missionary and his acolyte — On the shores of Lake Navakta — The abandonment of old beliefs — Tracking the young and brave Izusai — Predators in the woods — Arrival of the swordtooth titans — Slippery business — Izusai proves his worth — Kaster in the jaws of death — On the nature of faith and belief — Another day and a journey north — The Celestial Stairway and the House of the Twelve Moons — Micco’s company again — An apology — A contest of strength

In which Theren rages, Donnerjack flees, the Silver Talons take shelter from the Emberstorm, but must share said shelter with a party of raptor-riding halfling barbarians, a sophisticated trio of hobgoblin wizards and a millennia-old monstrosity slumbering under a few feet of murky water.