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Could a poet, a braggart and a piratical dwarf stand against the black forces of the North and save the Pastel City? In his melancholy sea-tower moody, reclusive tegeus-Cromis, hero of the Methven, put away his nameless sword, thinking that he had finished with soldiering forever. Then, on the road from Viriconium, came the mercenary, Birkin Grif, bringing dire news of the war between two queens and the hazard facing the Pastel City. They must travel to the Great Brown Waste to find Tomb and Dwarf, and join forces to fight for Queen Jane and Viriconium: for Canna Moidart and the Wolves of the North have awoken the geteit chemosit, alien automata from an ancient science, which will destroy everything in their path, and now they march upon the Pastel City...