First there were the Four Goddesses. The Four Eternal... Then - the Creator Spouses they created. Then - the First Limit, the abode of eternally young and immortal Mages. And only much later - the Four Human Limits, separated by insurmountable Borders. And only four Chosen Ones can cross them - four Wise Ones, each of whom rules his own Reach. So it was. But now the First Reach, destroyed by war, lies in ruins - and the last surviving magician, the warlock Trainoxis, is obsessed with a ruthless thirst to revive his race at the cost of DESTRUCTION OF THE RACE PEOPLE. He is challenged by the Wise of the Western Reach, Laurik, and his young disciple, expelled from the mysterious Scarlet Order...