Every wizard in Ethshar knew that if you needed something special, something difficult to find, that Gresh the Supplier was the man to see. He was expensive, but always delivered. So when the Wizards' Guild finally got fed up with the little green nuisances that called themselves "spriggans," the Guild hired Gresh to fetch them the magic mirror that created the troublesome imps. The wizards thought finding it looked impossible. Gresh thought his methods would do the job. But no one had asked the spriggans what they thought!

Gresh the Supplier can obtain any magical item, no matter how difficult, for a price--so when the Wizards' Guild of Ethshar asks for the magical mirror that spawned the troublesome imps known as "Spriggans" he doesn't see a problem.

Hate the antithesis of love, wages war upon the Triad Realms of High Faerie, Faerie and the Mortal World. In the third dimension, Emma Cameron the mortal warrior of Air has been captured by the Demon Lord Zugalfar and his legions, which wait in the shadow realm for the gates to Pandemonia to open. In the fourth dimension, Kilfannan and Kilcannan, the sylphs of the House of Kilfenoran are on an urgent quest to find the stolen key made of air that will unlock the power of the HeartStar. The hounds of hell have been released to stop them. In High Faerie, the rulers of Gorias are imprisoned in the outer darkness, and their emerald city is in flames. All seems lost as the fate of three worlds hangs in the balance. In this race against time, the sylphs of Kilfenoran are all that stand between the death of the HeartStar and the annihilation of all life as the threat of Pandemonia inches ever darkly onward.

Once, not so long ago, A warlock named Vond built an empire in the southern part of the Small Kingdoms. Vond is gone, but his empire survives under the rule of a seven-person Imperial Council and a young regent named Sterren. The Empire of Vond was hardly trouble-free after Vond's departure. Its neighbors are understandably wary of further expansion, there are questions about how Vond's magic became so potent, and so on. Most of the World, though, doesn't care -- Vond is off there in the southeastern corner of the World, far away from anywhere important. But one day a dockworker named Emmis watches a Vondish ship arrive in Ethshar of the Spices and finds himself hired as native guide and aide to someone who claims to be Vond's ambassador plenipotentiary to the overlords of the Hegemony of the Three Ethshars. But who is the Vondish ambassador, really, and what is his true business in Ethshar? And who has followed him to the city?

Dumery of Shiphaven was a lad with a love of wizardry--and no magic at all. He dreamed of apprenticing himself to a great wizard, but because he had not even a touch of the talent, it was a dream he could never fulfill. He would never apprentice himself to a great wizard, nor even a meager one; no matter how he loved magic and the magical arts, he would never work with wizards or wizardry. That's what Dumery was beginning to think, anyway--until he spied a great wizard humbling himself before a man selling dragon's blood, the precious stuff that made difficult spells work. If Dumery couldn't be a wizard, he could still become a dragon-hunter--and have all those condescending wizards crawling to him. And so Dumery set off on a quest--a quest in search of dragons and dragon-hunters, and ultimately the secret that lay beneath all the wizardry in Ethshar. Before he reached its end, he would uncover the terrible mystery of the dragon-hunters--and scheme a scheme that would change the face of Ethsharitic magic forever.

Tobas had been lucky to find a wizard to take him on as apprentice. But then the wizard died suddenly and unexpectedly after teaching Tobas only a solitary spell, and the youth was too old to find a new master. How could he earn a living when all the magic he could do was light fires?

Long out of print since 1989 after several printings by its original publisher, and now graced with stunning new packaging, the second book in the fabled Ethshar series is back!