After a year and a half, Chessington and his band become the first free Westerners to set foot in the East in three thousand years. The arrival is bitter sweet as now they must proceed on to a hopeful meeting with Pazlin. The meeting that has been preordained by History will be put to the test as to whether it will ever occur. Pazlin, the Sorcerer of the East, still has ways to deal with Chessington and his group that had set out to do battle with him. The traveling party will need to rally everything inside of them to make it to Pazlin's city of Ruderrac, but will they have enough left to free the Westerners and set the East right. Escalate: Book Five of the Phenderian Series keeps the tale going as Chessington and Pazlin each seek to rid the world of the other.