PROPHECY OF THE ANCIENTS "There was a King, and he wore Five Crowns and all the world owed him homage and lived at peace. Then the Years of Darkness came, and men became as beasts. But a King shall once more rise to wear the Five Crowns and bring men to peace:" Thus spoke the High Priestess Kayopla to Bertan Wandor. Only by undergoing the Test of the Five-Crowned King can Wandor fulfill his destiny and claim the throne. As Wandor sets out on his passionate quest to seek the Helm of the Jagnar in the depths of the dread Blue Forest, he is swept along on swirling cur rents of high adventure and peril, in the greatest tradition of heroic fantasy.