Warlands is set in a sword-and-sorcery world inhabited by humans and a variety of mythical races, caught up in an endless series of wars against evil forces. In this volume, a woman from the past returns to tell the heroes they must continue the fight to save the world. Although the great ice dragon Eganko was killed and cast into the ocean during the previously chronicled war, her blood is slowly freezing the world, causing the seasons to stop changing