Kaster Leckery, estranged from his brother-in-law, the Dragon Lord Valraven Palindrake, and increasingly bitter about the Magravandian princes who constantly plot to take the throne of the empire, finally tips over the edge. Determined to kill himself, instead he comes across a dying old man - and Kaster is no longer himself; the old man has passed his own destiny into the embittered Caradorean. Now Kaster is Taropat, a Breeland mage determined to ensure the "child of destiny" foretold by prophecy would arise and overthrow the evil empire.
- ISBN10 1857987853
- ISBN13 9781857987850
- Publish Date 14 June 2001 (first published 29 June 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 April 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 432
- Language English