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As the 'Great Mountain in the West speaks to the Sky with a Tongue of Flame', the Talisman Prophecy is on the verge of fulfillment.The rulers of the Lone Star Confederation are convinced that Clearwater's child – whose birth coincides to the second with the volcanic eruption – is the Thrice-Gifted One. And they hold both in their power. Cadillac and Steve's kin-sister, Roz, who have combined their formidable powers are determined to free her but Steve, lured by the prospect of a dazzling career within the First Family, is no longer certain who to support or betray.He has little time in which to decide for, in Ne-Issan, the land of the Iron Masters, a lone woman intent on avenging her dead lover is about to plunge her nation into a civil war that will set the whole continent ablaze.