Madrak knew that the cursed weapon Rathrok would destroy him, but he willingly took it up to save his people. Now the ancient axe threatens to overwhelm him. Though it wins Madrak victory after victory, Rathrok's grim power condemns those the chieftain would save. Madrak sees no other hope for his people's survival, however, even though those he protects have come to call Madrak the "World Ender".

Lylyth has arisen from recent conflicts as the leading edge of Everblight's armies and has spread the dragon's shadow across the lands of western Immoren. She and her handpicked followers cut down any who oppose the Legion with unerring precision. Empowered to range far from the center of Everblight's power, Lylyth drives her advanced strike elements with peerless grace and lethality.

Rather than shatter walls or unleash explosives, scathers deliver dragonblight itself as a deadly liquid poison. This substance can dissolve metal, putrefy wood, or crumble stone as easily as flesh and bone. Even a few drops will inflict searing agony on a man before granting the sweet release of death. Nothing will ever grow again on ground struck by the scather.

Hurling cabers, stone columns that seem too big to lift, has proven a surprisingly effective and devastating attack in battles throughout the centuries. These weapons have more than justified the backbreaking effort as they tumble forward with bone-pulping power in a nearly unavoidable and crushing attack. Anything caught in the caber's path is usually reduced to paste.