My first meeting with the Ancient was also my last . . . With these words, a discontented modern-day English professor is thrust deep into the world of the Ancients. Ever since the Making, this race of immortal beings - known to Humankind as the creatures of mythology, from the Dragon and Unicorn to the Griffin and Phoenix - have sought to cultivate the Light of creation, pushing back ever against the malignant forces of the Wasting. Fear, Pride,...