Prologue - To Dream of Wolves

Up, up in the mountains. Up where the master wizard Safar Timura works desperately to shield his people from the madness overtaking the world. Then higher still – to a lonely meadow where a small boy – a goatherder – is brutally murdered by strange creatures in the guise of wolves. Their leader: Safar's arch enemy, Iraj Protarus, returned from the dead! As Safar views the boy's remains he remembers the words of the ancient demon master, Lord Asper, who wrote:

"The Age Of The Wolf will soon draw near;
When all deceit and all is fear.
Then ask who is hunter and who is prey?
And whose dark commands do we obey?
With the Heavens silent – the world forsaken –
Beware the Wolf until the Gods awaken!"