half certainly one of 3, this booklet maintains the tale of the relatives we've got met within the Mamm Books and Danann - and introduces us to Characters who pass though a time we by no means are looking to need to be aware of up shut and personal.

About 12,800 years in the past from our time, the technologically complicated Phi tradition will get wiped from the face of Earth aside from a couple of survivors who, after they recover from being shell-shocked, make up their minds to by some means proportion their wisdom and provides the remnants of humankind a kick-start within the rebuilding strategy.

If they could stay lengthy sufficient to do it.

Our personal Alianora of Dunnottar in 500 CE is Keeper of the religion. She and her husband Drustann intend to go simply the purest religion to the following Keeper. to ensure, they enlist the help of the Sidhe of the a long time of their quest to discover the main historic resource. they need to visit that point and that place.

The pair are absolutely unprepared for what they locate after they get there. Earth is hit by way of probably the most devastating blows she has needed to suffer. If Alianora and Drustann have concept that the retaining of the religion has been tricky of their personal time, they're in for an schooling approximately what the note ‘difficult’ relatively means.

The humans of that historical time needs to continue to exist stipulations which Earth has yet hardly obvious, an Extinction point occasion - person who takes method too many lives.

Centered in what's now the continent of North the United States, the tradition of Phi has been not to mention by way of the remainder of Earth’s cultures for plenty of millennia. really remoted through geography, Phi has additionally remoted herself via selection. Her people have, over the millennia, come from in every single place Earth. without any to both aid them or prevent them, the Phi folks have had all these millennia during which to enable their imaginations, abilities, and information develop, flower, and fruit. the town of Phi, outfitted just a couple of generations of their earlier, is the outcome. Phi is the center, brain, and soul of the small yet strong tradition which outfitted it.

As Alianora and Drustann search the root on which their religion is equipped, the opposite facet of Earth is in a global of hassle. And it’s coming their way.

Ancestors Mamm and Danann of Phi, including a small band of different survivors, are making their strategy to the college on the Ring of Brodgar in Drustann’s youth domestic of Orkney, that's the place Alianora and Drustann have all at once chanced on themselves.

While the realm round them is ate up via fireplace and flood, our old tourists needs to live on. not just needs to they continue to exist, they have to see to the survival in their religion, and salvage what they could in their tradition.

Once Alianora and Drustann notice how very a ways again in time they've got really long past, they don't look forward to finding a lot that has something to do with their religion.

Yet there they're, and the area is falling to items round them.

How are they alleged to locate what they are looking for with Hell and excessive Water raging?