The Avatar travels to the strange Serpent Isle in search of a fleeing criminal.
Shortly after the Guardian's path to Britannia was sealed with the Avatar's destruction of the Black Gate, a letter giving orders to the Guardian's pawn, Batlin of the Fellowship, to travel to the Serpent Isle. Strangers in a strange land, The Avatar and his compatriots, Iolo, Shamino and Dupre, search for Batlin and Iolo's kidnapped wife, Gwenno.—Anonymous