The Gossamer Plain The Gossamer Plain is the first novel of The Empyrean Odyssey trilogy by Thomas M . Reid . Summary . Stinging from his defeat at the Siege of Menzoberranzan , cambion lord Kaanyr Vhok sets his eyes on a new target : Sundabar , the city of his foe Helm Dwarf - friend . Vhok ' s consort , Aliisza , infiltrates Dwarf - friend ' s staff , disguised as the pretty maiden Ansa . She works to slowly sabotage his papers and make him appear as an old , incompetent ruler . Meanwhile , Vhok allies with Banite priests in Sundabar and makes an agreement with the Blood of Morueme in the Nether Mountains . He learns that Aliisza is pregnant ( which she does not know herself ) and plots to use this to his advantage . With the help of the priest Zasian Menz , he designs a plan that will allow him to use Aliisza and the unborn child to access the Lifespring , a magical pool that would give him great power and charisma . As Vhok ' s plan is enacted , he orders the Scoured Legion to attack the underground levels of Sundabar , giving him and Zasian access to a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire . The draconic hobgoblin Myshik Morueme , sent by his uncle and father , joins them , claiming a display of good faith . Meanwhile , Banites abduct Aliisza and she ends up in the heavenly House of the Triad , her unborn son having cried out to the gods for justice . She is judged by the Court of Temperance for her crimes and ordered to remain in a state of consciousness separate from her body , living out her crimes over and over while her body nourishes her child before his birth . In the Plane of Fire , Vhok , Zasian , and Myshik are guided to the City of Brass by Kurkle , a hell hound that can take humanoid form . While taking refuge in a extradimensional mansion , Myshik betrays the others , killing Kurkle and locking Vhok and Zasian inside . The two manage to escape but are captured by an azer clan , which sends them to mines run by the efreet . They kill the efreeti leader , Hafiz al - Milhab , and secure passage to the City of Brass on a flying carpet . Imprisoned in the House of the Triad and subjected to memories of her past crimes , Aliisza , with the help of the astral deva Tauran , slowly begins to see the error of her ways . Tauran reveals that her son has been born . Her desire to see him aids her in atoning for her sins through her memories . Tauran allows her to see her son , Kael , who she is surprised to see is not Vhok ' s progeny , but rather the child of Pharaun Mizzrym , her brief drow lover . When Aliisza sees Kael , a dormant spell cast by Zasian awakens and Aliisza switches bodies with her son . She remembers that Zasian had used magic on her that would enable her to open a portal to the House of the Triad to the Plane of Fire . No longer feeling so righteous , Aliisza takes off and finds herself in the maw of a storm dragon ; the portal is in the creature ' s belly . She opens the portal just in time for Vhok and Zasian , who had been attacked in the City of Brass by Myshik , to come tumbling through . Aliisza awakens from unconsciousness to find Tauran begging for her and Vhok ' s aid . It turns out that Zasian is not a priest of Bane , but a priest of Cyric , and he has now been unleashed on the House of the Triad in the form of a storm dragon . Elemental Plane of Fire • House of the Triad • Prime Material Plane Northdark • Silver Marches Dragondoom • Nether Mountains • Rauvin Vale Doomspire • Sundabar Index . Creatures . Alu - fiend • Astral deva • Azer • Blue dragon • Cambion • Fire centaur • Demon • Draconic hobgoblin ( Half - blue dragon , half - hobgoblin ) • Efreeti • Fey ' ri • Fire giant • Fire rothé • Formian • Giant fly • Giant snake • Gulguthydra • Hell hound • Hippogriff • Hobgoblin • Leonal • Planetar • Salamander • Solar • Storm dragon • Tanarukk Artifacts . " Burnblood " • Flying carpet • Lifespring ( mentioned ) Appendix . Notes . " The Gossamer Plain " is also available in " The Empyrean Odyssey " omnibus .