"Suspended between the worlds of the living and the dead is a thrill-seeking race imbued with the fleeting power of shadow: the shadar-kai. Ashok bears the scars of many battles, lashing out with iron-spiked chains at any who stand against him--friend, foe, and brother alike. Until he is abandoned on the Shadowfell to fade away. In the city of Ikemmu, a bastion of disciplined shadar-kai, a cleric of the god of battle has a vision of a shadar-kai man, surrounded by flames and ravens, dying on the Shadowfell. A man who may be the savior of Ikemmu. Or its ultimate downfall."--P. [4] of cover.