To the manor born, the idealistic Archosian Wyrm suffers from a rare allergic reaction that gave him his nickname, making him sweat an oily ooze when stressed. His father missing, his mother insane, after witnessing the rape of his young crush by her own cousin, the son of a powerful general, and feeling helpless to stop it, Wyrm leaves his comfortable home to dare the fringes of space, find his father, and learn if his mother's belief that her sickly boy is the messianic World Soul, has any truth to it.
