Two great Houses of Magic, one of War the other of Life and Healing, have each produced an extraordinary individual. Elden, War Mage, a man who was nearly destroyed by war. Brillar, student of Healing, who turned instead to the Way of the Bow until his needs became her focus. Now their lives are ine
For 500 years there has been peace, a peace maintained by the Kalahn. Now the Rendai have come through the mountains. Peaceful at first, they have now shown themselves to be warlike, attacking village and caravans, slaughtering resisters and taking slaves including a woman of the Kalahn, an intoler