Strife in an underwater trading post - the microcosm of a cosmic war, battle lines drawn - when a stranger sails to town...Peal is in no mood for wars, cosmic or not. He seeks only rest after a harrowing journey, time to grieve for lost friends, and to come to terms with a terrible burden placed upon him. He is the custodian of a Chaotic weapon of world-sundering power... and he stands all alone.Neither the iron-fisted governor nor the pain-fueled sorceress pay him any heed. They judge the book by its cover, after all, and know nothing of what weighs his heart. This suits him fine.Until a new friend - a small child - is lured to the brink of death by their war.Now Peal is roused to action. Stepping into the core of the conflict, he shows the tyrants and anarchists war unlike any they had ever waged. He seeks their unwitting aid in ridding the world of themselves.I may make it sound easy, but it isn't. If anything it may be the opposite - the very greatest ordeal he's ever faced, a peril not just to his life, but to his very soul.