Description: Part of the Chronicles of the Ring Realms. Bannor Starfist, a northlands scout, is a man like any other--or is he? It starts with a hanging--his--Sarai, his Elven wife, is kidnapped, and demons hunt him in the night. Those events are only the breeze before the storm! Bannor is a bearer of the tao-force called the Garmtur Shak'Nola, a gift that when mastered, gives the user the ability to alter the threads of existence and make desires into reality. For an uninitiated warrior with no understanding of magic, the Nola is more bane than boon, an unstoppable out-of-control energy that might destroy not only him but the entire world.