El angustioso grito del Orbe, ¡Cuidado con Zandramas!, comienza a cobrar significado. Zandramas es una misteriosa persona que ha raptado al pequeño hijo de Garion y Ce'Nedra. Sus intenciones son tenebrosas: sacrificar a la criatura para conseguir el triunfo de las Tinieblas en el mundo. El rey de los murgos continua la magnifica serie Cronicas de Mallorea, que sigue a Cronicas de Belgarath.
Now in the final stages of their quest for his son, Garion and his companions travel to Kell to consult the only undamaged copy of the Malloreon Gospels. For centuries the Seers have guarded this book from the Grolims and even had their wizards put a curse of blindness on any Grolim who tried to enter Kell. So, as proclaimed in Guardians of the West, Belgarion the Godslayer sets out with those who must join him: the Eternal Man, the Guide, the Man with Two Lives, the Bearer of the Orb and the Silent Man, and the rest of his companions to The Place Which Is No More to make the final choice - darkness or light. But Zandramas the Sorceress will not be outdone. Though she may not enter Kell she still has young Geran and should she reach the final meeting place with him, then Garion must slay his son or the world will be no more.
In this third book of The Malloreon, Garion, Belgarath and their friends follow the quest begun in Guardians of the West and continued in King of the Murgos. It will lead them further into the dark designs of Zandramas and the strange ways of demons... The company now knows that Garion's baby son has been kidnapped by Zandramas and is to be used in a terrible ritual which will make the Dark Destiny supreme. The group, however, has been detained by Zakath, Emperor of all Mallorea, and taken to Mal Zeth, the largest city in the world. When a dire plague strikes, they manage to escape and, as prophesied by the Seeress of Kell, travel on to Ashaba - but, although they find Urvon, mad disciple of the evil god Torak, and the Demon Lord Nahaz, Zandramas is gone. In a desperate race against time, the company turn east once more to follow her spoor...
Elhana, reina de Elenia, tras ser envenenada, conserva la vida gracias a un hechizo que la mantiene petrificada en un bloque de cristal. El conjuro duraría mientras vivieran los diez caballeros que habian intervenido en el mismom pero, desde su realizacion, cada mes muere uno de ellos. Falquian, paladin de Elhana, busca desesperadamente el remedio para su reina, que se halla en el Bhelliom: una joya maravillosa que iba engastada en la corona del rey Sarak de Thalesia, que murio en una batalla quinientos años antes.
