The stories in the book works: Omnia's Journal, Tasmantis, and Monument to the Unimaginable, span three generations of characters: Omnia and Paul, their twins Venesia and Venexia, and Venesia and Venexia's daughter Siaan (pronounced See-Arne, rather than Sharn). Siaan is a redemptive, tanscendent figure, who surmounts the tragic legacy of her ancestral clan, and as such, is a personification of hope.