When Dom Manuel, Count of Poictesme, vanished - some claimed to have seen him riding with Grandfather Death - the mysterious, eternally youthful Horvendile place a strange doom on the remaining members of Manuel's Fellowship of the Silver Stallion. Each to go in a separate Direction and undergo what he would find there. Thus the Companions of the Fellowship had their finest and final adventures - of betrayal, of attaining ultimate wisdom, of becoming gods, of discovering the truths of life and love, and of the jest that lies behind the Universe.