Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world. Now, pershaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. For Count Hamnet and his companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be traveling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew.

North of the city of Nidaros, north of the forest, north of the steppes where the nomadic Bizogots hunt, a gap has opened in the ice-wall. And down through that gap come the men who call themselves "Rulers." Against the Rulers stands Count Hamnet Thyssen and his small band of friends. Perhaps Hamnet and his allies can save their lands from the Rulers. But first they must seek out the legendary Golden Shrine. An alternate-Bronze-Age epic begun in "Beyond...