Raistlin casts the magical spell that has cost him so much. For him, the Portal opens. . . .

But, at the same instant, his twin brother, Caramon, operates the magical time-traveling device. The fields of magic shift and collide.

Caramon and the kender, Tasslehoff, are flung into an unexpected time and place where they make a horrifying discovery.

And Raistlin enters the Abyss, prepared to face his most deadly challenge—

Takhisis, Queen of Darkness.

When Caramon Majere and Tasslehoff Burrfoot travel into the future, they find a lifeless, storm-ravaged land—Raistlin has won his godhood against the Queen of Darkness. Caramon realizes he must do what he should have done before. Traveling through time, he and Tasslehoff forge a daring plan to rescue the world from destruction.

Meanwhile, the deathknight Lord Soth, bitterly jealous, schemes to take Kitiara as his own. At the same time, Tanis Half-elven enlists the aid of Lord Gunthar and the Solamnic Knights in Sancrist to fortify the High Clerist’s Tower and defend Palanthas against the dark knights.

Amid the horrors of the Abyss, the fateful story of the brothers Majere reaches its magnificent crescendo.