Gilad Ani-Padda has lived more than a hundred lifetimes. Ten thousand years ago, he was his people's fiercest soldier... Today he is the Eternal Warrior, the Earth's immortal Fist and Steel! When Geomancer Geoff McHenry calls on him to save the world from a doom first predicted millennia ago, the Eternal Warrior will have no choice but to answer, no matter the cost!
In 1180, Gilad searches for the next in line to serve as Seer of Earth and Stone. But when the Geomancer, a Tibetan monk, faces certain death, he attempts to create a tulpa -- a thoughtform duplicate -- to serve as his intended successor, a decision whose repercussions will resonate through to the modern day.