book three of the Serpent’s Keep Trilogy The Outland was pulled apart millennia ago, six disparate landscapes sent to six isolated realms of the universe… The Outland is whole once again, brought back together with the Six Temples, some abandoned, some in ruin, others populated by those sent away so long ago… including the Ancient Monks. The Outland, brought together and yet torn from the rest of the universe. It exists now as a world unto itself. The Outland is alone.