Avas Didion Flicker was a poet, storyteller, adventurer, and world traveler. In his life he visited holy cities and knelt in disguise before veiled tyrants and god-kissed mendicants. He journeyed with desert caravans, earning his keep telling tales to rapturous audiences. He spoke with the Toblai in their mountain holds, stood on the shores of Perish, and walked the streets of Malaz City. At the end of his life he wrote in his colonnaded garden amidst fruit trees, nightingales, and many wives.