Without the help of the Arpenter Mara, Elaìne would never have been able to go to the end of his quest. After having crossed the Sea of Eagles and the Land of the Meutes, she finally fulfilled the mission which her father Primus had set herself: to reach the city which houses the remains of the ancient knowledge, the city of the King-Taon. He did not content himself with protecting the writings before the burning. If he mastered the culture of the engrain, he also developed the breeding. Each island of the lagoon now houses herds of aurochs and long-haulers, herds which, thus enclosed, are no longer available for the other clans, which endangers their own nomadism... He certainly allows his own to be sedentary and no longer risk their life in the migrations, but he also prevents the nomadism of the others. This king Taon shares the madness and the logic of Primus: the end justifies the means. And this demise of the parties risks to provoke the lost way back, the path of the sedents, the path of the sedents, the sedents, the path of the sedents, and the sedent the sedent the sedent the sedent the sedent the sedent the sedent the selves the selves the selves the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of the selves of selves of selves of selves of selves of selves of selves of selves.