Count Ibryen has been driven from his ancestral land by the Gevethen - strange and powerful usurpers. Together he, Rachyl and the enigmatic Traveller go in search of a way to oppose the Gevethen's awful power. In these strange lands they find a dark presence stronger even than the Gevethen.
I gave up by page 6 - the thought of struggling through that much overwritten prose (530ish pages) for a genre that is already a hard sell for me was just too much. 6 pages to give what could’ve been done in 2. Nope.