Scarcely a year following the events of Cyador’s Heirs, Lerial uses his mastery of Order and Chaos, the competing natural forces that shape his world and define the magic that exists within it, to utterly destroy an Afritan military force crossing into Cigoerne.

Five years later on, Lerial, now an overcaptain and a field commander of Cigoerne’s Mirror Lancers, must lead three companies of troops into Afrit on a mission of mutual interest: neighboring Heldya is normally threatening to invade Afrit, and if that nation falls, Cigoerne is for certain to be next.

The mission is both delicate and harmful; Lerial’s value in your time and effort to repel Heldya is certainly undeniable, but his stressed history against Afrit may reopen older wounds that will never truly heal.