The Hylar are beset from all sides by the other clans for Thorbardin. Following the summer of flame, the Hylar have come under attack for mysterious reasons — but the majority of the Hylar army was out fighting the Chaos War. In any event, this is the story of the perseverance (and stubbornness) which kept the Life-Tree and its inhabitants intact!

As the War of the Lance ended in defeat for the forces of the Dark Queen, a group of her draconian soldiers left the field of battle. The draconians of the First Dragonarmy Engineers concluded that war has one big disadvantage—it can get a fellow killed. Led by their stalwart commander, a Bozak…

While Palin Majere and Steel Brightblade make their way into the Shoikan Grove, Crysania searches for the answers to the questions deep in her soul. With the gods' attention on the Chaos War, Crysania travels to the Temple in Neraka bearing the Dragon Stones. With her are Tandar, a White Robe transformed into a tiger, the mage's brother, his wife, and a dwarven priest. Will Crysania and Tandar both find what they are looking for?

Gilthas, the son of Tanis Half-Elven and Laurana Kanan, has been placed on the throne of Qualinesti against his will to act as a puppet king of the elven senators and prevent the unification of the two elven nations. The elves assume that since Gilthas is half-human that he would be easy to control and manipulate to do their will. But Gilthas has both his mother and his father in him, and the "puppet king" might not be as easy to control as they think...

From Wizards.com: "The minotaur pirates of the Blood Sea face a terrible choice as the world around them seems to crumble during the Summer of Chaos."

From Wizards.com: "When agents of the Dark try to enlist the gnomes in the Chaos War, they do not reckon with an assortment of well-intentioned heroes, a brilliant (well, not that brilliant) gnome inventor, and the indomitable noble gnome spirit."