About the book: year / Ziru and Aegidius the Cowardly go to the necromancers of the Black Sands, continuing to search for a way to return the great Second Teacher from the dead. A professional army of gnomes from Ochsfoldgarn invades the Valley of Ashes , to plunder and exterminate the local tribe of people, but meets unexpectedly fierce resistance. The Neverborn Dragon, god of fire, war and destruction, leads his flock through the Spine, searching for the source of the Call. His new divine essence wants to incinerate all living things on the way, and the remnants of humanity are trying to keep the former master from madness.