Vor Hearthsraven spent the winter in her mountain hermitage, pondering her past and future. She emerges with the spring, prepared to seize her present. She will return to her home country of Weldom, to reunite with Giri Holstor and investigate the path to becoming a Weldom Wizard, but she's not sure yet if either wizardom or Giri are what's best for her. Before she can decide, Vor finds herself in the midst of rising civil unrest. The growing scarcity of mage-stone has allowed the birth of mages among the common people, who have long resented the nobility keeping magic to themselves. Now they launch an assault on the Wizard's Citadel. Vor and a group of wizards plunge deep into the rock below the city, racing the rebel mages to the city's magical anchor with the hope they can stop them from destroying the entire capital.