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Cheron ... a world of deep quiet forests, of soft green valleys and peaceful blue seas. Where moutains rear to the clouds, and their snow caps gleam in the sunlight. A world of quiet villages, huddling in the folds of hills ... a world of medieval technology that should be ruled by wise and beneficient rulers ...

But isn't.

Five hundred years ago, Cheron was settled ... a time that is not so much lost in the past ... as deliberately expunged from the minds of those who settled there ... the talented ones.

They had been settled there for a purpose ... the ones from many planets and cultures ... all with one thing in common ... their psi rating.

Despised and outcast in their native worlds, they had been brought to Cheron together ... their past lives erased and instead given images of a peaceful, idyllic life on this kindly pastoral world. But five hundred years have passed ... and it has all gone wrong.

For Cheron is an experiment turned nightmare ... a world that has gone almost wholly to the Dark Side.

Now it is ruled by the Witch Queen .... an evil woman who has conquered all the world ... except the high moutains and Athlon ... one small kingdom. The King of Athlon she slew in battle, and now the hopes of Cheron rest on the slender shoulders of his sixteen year old son Hugh. But his two closest advisors (his Uncle and a Wise Woman) have died mysteriously ... his beloved aunt has disappeared ... and her husband has gone to seek her.

Hugh has decided to risk one last desperate throw ... among the papers he found when searching his late Uncle's study was one that contained a reference to a mysterious people who lived in the high mountains, who guarded the sword of crystal that could draw down fire from the heavens. This alone, Hugh believes, might save Athlon ... and even Cheron. He decides to draw together a small company of people, variously talented and gifted ... to send them on a desperate dangerous quest, through the heart of the Witch Queen's land ....