Jalav, Amazon war leader of the savage Hosta clan, lay wounded on a cold battlefield. She cared for nothing save her spirit's safe flight to the bosom of Mida, patron goddess of the Midanna Amazons. But such peace was not to be hers. For Jalav was the one spoken of in the prophesy of the Snows - the saviour who must travel into the glacial hell of Sigurr's Peak and beyond, and without whom any mission to save the realms of Mida would surely fail!