Used With Traces Of Damp Affecting Djkt & Rear Board. 512 Pages. content is good. The chosen carries us into the Commonwealth of the free land, to which heart, Osrakum, an earthly paradise hidden within a volcanic crater. Here the Society of the Masters has involved, men of the world rule was savage cruelty. Soon after the Carnelian is born , his father is exiled to remote island where he grows up free from the rituals and pomp of the Masters, secure in the love of his household.Years later, a ship comes flying through the winter gales and destroys his world. Free masters disembark and as they removed their masks of gold, Carnelian is awed by the light with that seems to radiate from their skin. Informal conclave a big Carnelian father to return with them to oversee the election of a new god emperor...... This is book 1 of the stone dance, Chameleon Triology.