"Thou may take with thee three things; choose thou well what they will be." "Of what nature may they be?" I asked. "Thou may take a weapon physical, a weapon spiritual, and a weapon divine." These are the Three Weapons that the Southford Historian Farrell is to take with him into the world of Arth when he is summoned to rescue Kelvin the King. Choosing a sword, a Bible and a Rosary, each grants him power, and only by means of them can he battle Marcum and the Mundos. But to get there at all he has to traverse the realm of the Storehouses of the Snow, in the very clouds themselves.