Nineteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker is torn between his personal dreams and his Jedi responsibilities, while he and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, face a world of danger and intrigue that threatens to destroy the Republic.
Drizzi and his companions set out to destroy the evil artifact Crenshinibon, while Wulfgar struggles to overcome the horrors of his imprisonment, and assassin Artemis Entreri returns to the streets of Calimport.
As the gods of the Realms quarrel and step over one another in their greedy grabs for power, Lloth, the dark Spider Queen deity, decides to cautiously enter the fray by sending the beast Errtu as her evil emmisary to the city of Menzoberranzan.