Corum fighting to save those who once would have destroyed him trying to get what's needed to achieve this (the Oak and Ram). This is a much, much darker series than the first trilogy of Prince Corum. The books are still absorbing, still filled with action and still good story telling.This is an interesting Trilogy something of a retelling of the Irish legend of the Silver Hand. It could be looked at as tying the Eternal Champion Cycle into the history we know and Mr. Moorcock's Million Spheres. While I dropped the rating here to 3 stars it has to do with my own experience of the trilogy. It's well written and well told, but very, very dark. Of course if you've read the Irish legends, the other versions of them and books based on them it could be little else.