A non-professional magician is much more dangerous than an experienced sorcerer, because he has the madness of this world on his side. Through the efforts of the inept magician Laraf, the new head of the Code of Balance, a flourishing city perishes in fire, and the Falm Peninsula, a place where werewolf barons and inhabitants of impregnable castles feud and make truces, becomes one colossal battlefield. Egin, a former officer of the Code of Balance, cannot ignore this war between humans and werewolves. Duty and love draw him into the very heart of battle...