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Of all the honours that Dray Prescott ... had won during his fabulous
adventures on Kregen, ... none were valued by him more than his membership in
the Order of the Krozairs of Zy.
The Krozairs were the highest order of chivalry on that turbulent planet,
dedicated men, warriors of stern convictions and unflinching hearts. And
Prescot had been ordained a Krozair back at the dawn of his career.
Thus when the Krozairs in their hour of need called on all their far-flung
members for aid, he should have come. But he did not. His return had been
blocked by the anger of the mysterious Star Lords.
Before Prescot could achieve redemption, he had two armies opposed to him,
two warring kingdoms naming him outlaw, and only the tides of the seven moons
as a weapon.
Never before in his adventurous career [on] Antares had Dray Prescot
been in as desperate as situation as he found himself on his second entry
into the city of Magdag. Magdag had been the scene of one of Prescot's
earliest experiences on Kregen and he recalled it with loathing as a city of
power-lusting slaver, of decadent worshippers of the Green Sun. As one who
had been initiated into the chivalric order of Krozairs, he despised all that
city stood for.
But now Prescot was an outcast. Any Krozair, any follower of the Red Sun of
his former friends, would slay him. For him there was only one way to
recover his home, his children, his self-respect. He would have to perform
an act of valor so extreme, so fabulous, that its glory would wash away all
that now stained his name.
Only by reaching to the very heart of mighty Magdag could he hope to achieve
such a suicidal triumph.
Never before in his fantastic career on Kregen,... had Dray Prescot
been in such a predicament. A despised outcast by his friends who wore the
red of the sun Zair, he had now been condemmed by his old enemies whose
battle color was the green of the sun Grodno.
For while among these slaver and conquerors of the green, searching for a way
to turn the tide of war to his own redemption and his friends' advantage, he
had personally encountered the deadly animosity of Grodno's king, had
betrayed his champion, and had shattered all he had so carefully worked for.
But continue he must - for now, in addition to the enormous feat that alone
would restore his honor, he had a blood vengeance to achieve that overrode
everything.