The Race to Destiny is over and evil has won.The mad god Noshid drained the red magic from the Destiny Stone and sated, he discarded it, defiled and fractured.Haggersath Giftgiver's mission to recover the forged gifts stolen from the Dwarrow abruptly fails when an accident leaves him "e;chipped"e; and overcome by an uncontrollable, all-consuming urge to mate. With no other choice, the Dwarrow must follow their lust-crazed leader.Aieren and the Sylvan fare little better. Glenia and Belusan, the two Sylvan, charged by their goddess to escort and Aieren, long only to return home to the Daoine Maithe. With the Destiny Stone lost, the race to claim it should be over—but Aieren has changed. No longer without magic, he wields a strange power unlike anything they understand. The Destiny Stone calls to him with growing urgency. Thier fate is bound to his, and his to the Destiny Stone.Seeing the Sylvan and Dwarrow failures to reclaim the Destiny Stone, the water god Bruss calls upon his own people to enter. The race of Men. King Lyndan Ravensun of Pyrain has led his mighty army in pursuit of the Gnomôk all the way to their home in the Desert of Cinders. At his side stands the land's most powerful wizard. Together, will they intend to claim the Destiny Stone for Men?In the Shattered Stone, they all converge on the Destiny Stone, discarded and seemingly spent. But is it truly powerless? The Dwarrow are distracted—but for how long? Men arrive with a king's army and a Silroh wizard of immense power, while Aieren and his Sylvan escort bring strange new abilities of their own. All seek the lost Destiny Stone.Yet none of them sees the greater danger: a mad god of vengeance and destruction, unleashed upon the world. Having drained the Destiny Stone's power for himself, he now wields it as his own. Who can stand against a fallen god armed with the red magical power of the Destiny