This novel, the first in a trilogy, creates a whole new world of magic for the reader to explore, with lands described in vivid detail. Following the adventurous life of Rhys, a man possessed of the Knowledge who has chosen the path of a traveller and who brings aid to those in times of desperate need, the story opens as his search begins to find King Llew's missing daughter. Although this initially proves to be a fruitless task and, despite his need to travel on, Rhys never gives up hope that one day he will find her.