Night in the Lands of Sword and Magic is not only the time of vampires and dark forces. There are those who, by nature, understand the beauty of this time of day, and use it for their survival. Dark elves who rejected the doctrines of Lolth, and seek to return to the surface, to their bright brothers and sisters. It is in their castle that the heroine of this book, the dark elf, the priestess Eilistri, is trying to gain a foothold and study the phenomenon of Breakdown.