SCIENCE FANTASY-WITCH-POWER OF ESTCARP STOOD ALONE AGAINST ALIEN SORCERY OF KOLDER,TREACHERY OF KARSTEN AND ENMITY OF ALIZON,AS SIMON TREGARTH THE OUTWORLDER AND JAELITHE HIS WITCH-WIFE STROVE IN THE RIDING ARMIES AND THE STORMING OF CITADELS FOR THE SECURITY OF ESTCARP,LAST BASTION OF THE OLD RACE IN THE STRUGGLE WITH DEMONIC CONTROL WIELDED BY THE FORCES OF KOLDER.FOR KOLDER TOO HAD MASTERED THE ART OF SHAPE-CHANGING,BUT NOT AS THE WITCHES OF ESTCARP USED IT.THIS WAS A MATTER OF SHAPE-CHANGING WITHIN,NOT WITHOUT,A DISTORTING AND TWISTING OF THE MINDS OF MEN SO THAT THEY BECAME SPIRITLESS,SOULLESS BEINGS,TO ACT AND KILL AT THE BEHEST OF KOLDER.AND SO THE EVIL POWER SPREAD ITS WEB OVER ESTCARP AND HER ALLIES.