In this first book about the Glass Wizard, Yves and his familiar venture to the Crystalline Trench while trying to evade the Mirror World Stalker. Meanwhile, Yu is forced to become a guild guard at the Albweiss Mountain Guild.
Please find here an overview summarising each chapter. Contains spoilers!
Chapter 1
A powerful presence stalks glass wizard Yves through the ethereal mirror.
Chapter 2
Yves and his pathera familiar Midnight venture to and hide out in the lighthouse.
Chapter 3
From the lighthouse, Yves enters the mirror world plane through his ethereal mirror. He seals off the passage connecting the mainland and the lighthouse, thereby experiencing a transformation of his mirror world form. With his new form, his eyesight improves significantly, but he has great difficulty returning to his plane.
Chapter 4
In the lighthouse, Yves makes an inventory of the weapons and artifacts hidden there. He researches the phenomena he experienced in the Mirror World. To Midnight’s dismay, he uses his Feathers of Varna, which leave him in a placid daze for hours.
Chapter 5
Yves and Midnight leave the lighthouse and become embroiled in perilous battles with the beasts of the Northland. The Vicha, a relentless witch’s curse that has haunted Yves for two months, gains immeasurable power by awakening and devouring a subterranean behemoth.
Chapter 6
Yves sends Midnight away with the task of delivering a message to the Adventurers’ Guild in the far east. He then confronts the Vicha, which has devoured the cliff behemoth. Turning a massive dome of shards into an extension of his ethereal mirrors, he prepares to shift himself, the curse and their battle to the Dimensional Plane of Shards.
Chapter 7
Harnessing the potent energies and ample light fragments of the Dimensional Plane of Shards, Yves’ alters his mirror world form. In the attempt to free himself from the Vicha, he becomes an ethereal being of light. However, the Mirror World Stalker appears and disrupts the battle. After shifting back to the dual reality, Yves encounters a witch and her barthar familiar, the first claiming to be a shaman.
Chapter 8
Terribly injured, Yves continues his journey to the north-eastern settlements. Midnight heads for the Albweiss Mountain Guild to deliver the first of the two messenger strings. Travelling through a vast tunnel system within the mountains, she eventually gets caught within the trap of a band of rockshade weavers and a stygian serpent. After being poisoned, she develops her magical abilities, founded in darkness.
Chapter 9
On his arduous journey across the Nordlands plateau and Zwischenland, Yves struggles with his second and first sight deteriorating rapidly. The chapter reveals how in their childhood, Yves and Midnight encountered the elf responsible for Yves’ progressive blindness, and how the Jabarrah merged with him.
Chapter 10
Midnight traverses the interwoven underground passages within the Albweiss Mountains. She encounters various beasts and creatures of darkness, including sprites and the powerful Dฮฯขฮ ฮฮ ฦฯ [dawnings], the living contrasts of shadows. The latter bestow upon her a fragment of darkness essence. In several battles, her last against the shadebeast, this essence and her bond with Yves become the catalyst for Midnight transformation into a beast of darkness. In the grand ice-chamber, where the shadebeast had directed her, she finds a hidden messenger string and a beast-wizard sigil ring. Taking both items with her, she exits the Albweiss mountain tunnels on the southern side.
Chapter 11
On his demanding journey to the Barnstream settlements, Yves crosses the Zwischenland and the north-eastern desert. Occasionally, he conjures his shaman illusions Twig and Mushroombird for comfort and conversation. He suffers greatly from his injuries, the strain of travelling, his loss of sight, and the Vicha presence. After four weeks, he eventually gives in to the Feathers of Varna.
Chapter 12
Faroah, currently grants Oracle in the dwarven temple atop the Varren [a mountain within the Albweiss Mountain range]. He is sought out by Samasira, a young witch, who climbed the mountain with her companions. She explains that she had been sold and bound to a wizard who is about to die soon. If he dies, so will she. She wishes to know how to free herself from this bond and receives oracle from Faroah: It takes a change of heart.
Chapter 13
Midnight continues her journey to the Albweiss Mountain Guild. After traversing through the southern face of the Albweiss Mountains, she must learn how to travel the Nowhere Snowtrail in her new darkness form.
After escaping the Shaira, who have held them captive for years within the Albweiss Mountains, wizard Salgier, his avian familiar Sahir, Ahrasik the voltera, and Barbarthara the scorchborn, alongside a golem, are intercepted and defeated by the Haraak ork horde. Amongst the orks are two powerful orichs and Nagrak, the runt.
Before dying, Salgier transcribes a warning about the Shaira’s ambitions and experiments unto one of Midnight’s messenger strings.
Chapter 14
Barbarthara takes root upon Nagrak to have him guide her off the Albweiss mountains. In her withered form, Nagrak – who is quite stupid to begin with – mistakes her for a wizard staff. Furthermore, he believes to feel the sacred [WERISS] and to be chosen by the mountain to start his ork walkabout. Venturing off on his own, he quickly trips over the edge of the path. In his fall, he smashes through the ice ceiling of a cave and gets caught and stuck in a rock crevice, while Barbarthara falls into the cave.
Midnight continues her journey across the Nowhere Snowtrail to the Albweiss Mountain Guild.
Chapter 15
As of now, Yu enjoyed a pampered life at the estate of his shirka Tria, who owns the human habitat amidst the Barnstream settlemens. That is, until she kicks him out and arranges for him to work as a guard for the Albweiss Mountain Guild. To get there, he braves the Snowtrail with an escort team of skilled fighters and then takes up his post as the guild’s new Transcender. He has a mess of a first day.
Unfortunately, he is not a wizard, but a wizard-fina bastard, who failed to show any noteworthy skill. He does, however, hear voices that reveal strange truths to him. He hears a witch approaching the guild.
Chapter 16
In the grand cavern, Barbarthara battles and defeats the Weaver King. She then succumbs to poison-induced changes. Nagrak is still trapped.
Chapter 17
The guards and guests of the Albweiss Mountain guild confront Samasira, the approaching witch, and her party. A fight breaks out, magic and claws clashing, until the dispute is interrupted by the residentual shaman of the guild. After undergoing a shamanic reading, Kel-Khadar and a krynn, as well as two injured companions, are permitted to enter. Meanwhile, Samasira and a Sylvren leave to spend the night on the Nowhere Snowtrail.
Yu senses a larger scheme at play. He believes the guild guards, as well as Harrow and several members of her party, are in truth part of a criminal syndicate that has quietly seized control of the guild from within.
Chapter 18
Yu and the guards allow Kel-Khadar and the krynn to enter the guild. They take care of the two injured travellers. Bubs and Deltington operate on Abar’s leg, while the shaman and Yu tend to the selder’s sevrants.
With his special senses, Yu hears the shaman speaking to him as the 
. Her overwhelming power disturbs him to the point of collapse and profoundly disrupts his sense of self.
Chapter 19
After hearing the ‘s voice, Yu experiences a growing split in his personality, which also distorts his sense of basic physical needs and limitations. Upholding his old self in the form of the metaphorical mask of a guard, he tries to suppress the disparate halves; “the screaming part that went mad trying to unhear the Queen, and the listening part that would give anything to hear more of her voice”.
While doing so, he serves dinner for the guild guests, as Bubs an Deltington still operate on Abar.