The elves of Silvanesti is at war with humans from Ergoth - but the fight is at a stalemate. To change the outcome of the war, one of the twin brothers, Kith-Kanan, follows a dream and brings his twin brother, the Speaker of Silvanesti Sithas with him in search of griffons. This journey brings the two brothers back together as they fight to stay alive in a harsh mountain landscape.But even this joined adventure is not enough to overcome the basic differences in opinion in regards to pureblood or not - and in the end, each one must follow his own path...Just like the first volume, the text on the back cover is off. It gives away a lot of the book - and then it gets it wrong on top of that... And I have no idea why this middle book in the trilogy is written by Douglas Niles and not the same two authors who wrote vol. 1 and 3 - especially not since they are credited in book 3 for writing it...??? Guess it's another TSR mishap...