From the introduction: The days grow darker now, and in the solitude of my exile I sense that we have reached a cross-roads. The world is changing, and as it turns on its axis I can feel the movement in the stone. Loathing and hatred have risen again in the north, our Enemy scheming on our destruction, and as I write these words he sends forth warriors as messengers, to show the Nations of Men that they cannot be forgotten, that the Horde still has power.