Description The story opens up with a wedding in the country of Fegnir at Guel Castle.
Hungry shape changing Bugbears kidnap 2 members of the party and is up to the rest of the g.
Joining up with the two, are Lord Calador\'s champion, an oriental monk, a barbarian from the mountains, a small elf with his human girlfriend, Father Yor, the blacksmith\'s daughter, Meg with a scout also joining the group as well as a few more along the way.
They undertake several encounters as they try to reach Lord Calador\'s castle.
Bellgrad is miraculously healed by Father Yor after being declared dead by others at the temple.
They fall victim to bear attacks; mortally wounding Bellgrad
Sargon rides through the night to save his friend, taking him to Missionwise.
A master pathfinder pursues the 2
Sargon and Bellgrad are forced to go cross country.
Sargon and Bellgrad take lodging with a blacksmith friend and are warned as they leave in the morning that they will be pursued.
It is discovered (by the reader) that the person that Sargon suspected is indeed behind his family\'s murder; but the identity of the assassin is unknown.
No priest up to that point has been able to perform any Clerical Magic for the past 100 years; they heal through the use of plants, wood and stone.
He discovers after tending the sick beneath the temple that he has the gift to use "Holy Magic" after healing a man struck with the plague.
At the same time a young priest named Yor comes out of hiding (being raised by the clergy of the temple) by performing part of a service at the temple of Yahmar in the town of Missionwise.
All of this takes place as a horrendous blizzard blows through the land.
A soldier from the last patrol of Castle Guel named Bellgrad is discovered by Sargon while riding his horse away from the carnage.
The priest dies by a scout as he and Sargon flee.
Shortly after the wedding, everyone in the castle except the groom named Sargon and the priest that performed the ceremony; die from poisoned food.
Description The story opens up with a wedding in the country of Fegnir at Guel Castle
