The kingdoms of magic lay shattered beneath the foul machines and poisoned air of Outland invaders. But a prophecy uttered by a tranced princess set two young champions - the giant apprentice Mage Jarrod, and the Lady Marianna - on a strange and desperate quest, a last chance to save the empire of Strand. From the college of magic to a void beyond time and space; through gale torn seas and barren ice-clad peaks; past slavers, ritual child-killers, and the High Thrall of the Dead...in a world of weird creatures - fever trees, talking bumblebirds, flying cloudsteeds, huge, savage warcats - Jarrod and Marianna had to find the one creature that could save the Strand...the rarest creature of all. A beast that didn't exist. The unicorn...