Chapter 4 Deliverance Summary

In Chapter Four, we see the people of the Zenifi delivered in part by Monush and the Darakemba. Before they begin their plan the chief of the Zenifi, Ilihiak, takes the son of King Motiak aside and proceeds to reveal to him the secrets of his people, things he thinks the man must know before he acts to save the Zenifi. The first secret is that the Zenifi assassinated the old king Nuak when the tribes of humanity split, and that in their subsequent wanderings the Zenifi traveled to the desolate desert known as the Opustoshen, the blasted landscape where nothing is thought to have lived. There, the Zenifi discovered countless long dead skeletons and an ancient artefact of a language inscribed upon gold leaves. No one can identify the language, and it raises questions of who the oldest humans were...