This volume reprints new material from the Elfquest anthology comic book series, and collects the starting stories of a brand new adventure. Ember's splinter tribe of Wolfriders, now settled in their new land at Howling Rock Holt, begin to discover that their world is growing smaller. Human civilization, so primitive and scattered during the time of the original Quest (as told in Reader's Collection volumes 1-8), is progressing and expanding. Ember's tribe faces the suspicion and hatred not only of superstitious townspeople, but also the enmity of a feudal warlord, son of the tyrant that Ember's father defeated years earlier.