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to fire a white arrow at Simon, then disappears. A new voice tells Simon
to take the white arrow, Chat it is a Sithi gift.

The dwarfish newcomer is a troll named Binabik, who rides a great gray
wolf. He tells Simon he was only passing by, but now he will accompany
the boy to Naglimund. Simon and Binabik endure many adventures and
strange events on the way to Naglimund: they come to realize that they
have fallen afoul of a threat greater than merely a king and his counselor
deprived of their prisoner. At last, when they find themselves pursued by
unearthly white hounds who wear the brand ofStormspike, a mountain of
evil reputation in the far north, they are forced to head for the shelter of
Geloe's forest house, taking with them a pair of travelers they have rescued
from the hounds. Geloe, a blunt-spoken forest woman with a reputation

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as a witch, confers with them and agrees that somehow the ancient Norns,
embittered relatives of the Sithi, have become embroiled in the fate of
Prcster John's kingdom.

Pursuers human and otherwise threaten them on their journey to
Naglimund. After Binabik is shot with an arrow, Simon and one of the
rescued travelers, a servant girl, must struggle on through the forest. They
are attacked by a shaggy giant and saved only by the appearance of Josua's
hunting party.

The prince brings them to Naglimund, where Binabik's wounds are
cared for, and where it is confirmed that Simon has stumbled into a
terrifying swirl of events. Elias is coming soon to besiege Josua's castle.
Simon's serving-girl companion was Princess Miriamele traveling in dis-
guise, fleeing her father, whom she fears has gone mad under Pryrates'
influence. From all over the north and elsewhere, frightened people are
flocking to Naglimund and Josua, their last protection against a mad king.

Then, as the prince and others discuss the coming battle, a strange old
Rimmersman named jamauga appears in the council's meeting hall. He is
a member of the League of the Scroll, a circle of scholars and initiates of
which Morgenes and Binabik's master were both part, and he brings more
grim news. Their enemy, he says, is not just Elias: the king is receiving
aid from Ineluki the Storm King, who had once been a prince of the
SithiЧbut who has been dead for five centuries, and whose bodiless
spirit now rules the Noms of Stormspike Mountain, pale relatives of the
banished Sithi.

It was the terrible magic of the gray sword Sorrow that caused Ineluki's
deathЧthat, and mankind's attack on the Sithi. The League of the Scroll
believes that Sorrow has been given to Elias as the first step in some
incomprehensible plan of revenge, a plan that will bring the earth beneath