A high-fantasy epic in which a returning demonic threat—the Demon King and his Dread Legion—menaces multiple worlds. The stories focus on magic, large-scale war, and peril, continuing established characters and settings.
Descriptions include magicians and conjurers, demon kings and the Dread Legion, necromancers, elves, and organized clans.
Product descriptions include praise such as: "Feist has a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages," "Feist constantly amazes," "[Feist's] descriptions are evocative and he draws interesting characters into gradually darker and direr situations," and "Sheer readability."