elegy for a lost star sets the stage for a major turning point in the symphony of ages seriesthe dragon anwynwho has lain for three years in deathlike sleep in a grave of rock and black coal is freed by the cataclysm that concluded requiem for the sun disoriented and confused she remembers only two things the person who trapped her in dragon form and locked her in a rocky graverhapsody and an allencompassing desire to wreak vengeancemeanwhile achmed the firbolg king resumes rebuilding the his shattered home while a guild of merciless assassins set about taking revenge on him for the killing of their leadera horribly deformed but magical being finds its way through a carnival of freaks to the palace of an evil despot who sees in it the potential to be the instrument by which his plans of conquest and brutal domination of a continent will be realizedwith the rise of new leaders good and evil the longawaited birth of the child of time the dark plans of assassins and rulers a confrontation that shakes the relationship of the three and a battle to the death between two dragons of unimaginable elemental power the seeds of chaos are planted for a war that will by its end consume half of the world