The Ring of Five Dragons — Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

The Kundalan people have suffered for a century under the viciously oppressive technologically-superior V'ornn invaders. In the resulting crisis of faith--why hasn't their goddess Miina saved them?--Kundalan religion has fallen under the control of evil forces from within who forbid the teaching traditional sorcery, pretending to have no magic of their own. The V'ornn's mysterious leaders, the Gyrgon, know better, and search for the lost Ring of Five Dragons, the key the door of the fabled Kundalan Storehouse, and perhaps Kundalan sorcery as well.

But misused, the Ring is the trigger of seemingly inexorable annihilation for V'ornn and Kundalan alike. Now from Hong the oppressed must arise the hero of prophecy, the Dar Sala-at, who alone can wield the sorcerous power to save the world.