What do the visions mean? Qea has never had a vision so strong before. An army, a king, marching across the desert towards her home. How do the pictures in the book look so alive? The young tutor mesmerised by the magic of the drawings in the old scrolls is lost to time and his duties. He is soon recalled to them by the Master who sends him to Axium. A capital city where evil stalks the corridors of the palace. All Haro wanted was to get away from home, to join the cavalry, like his father promised him. Now he finds himself locked up by King Eandor for daring to remind him of what he had offered so many years before. Civil war is looming, magic reappears in the land of Sannan, and few know anything about the myths that foretold its return. A young tutor, a seer and two young men find out how destructive magic can be in the hands of the mage who wants to rule their land.