The Supreme Mage, expelled by his relatives from the clan of the chosen for disobedience, a sixteen-year-old youth who crossed the threshold of childhood without receiving his Destination and therefore was not allowed into adulthood, and a talking beast called the guardian... Quite a strange company even for Rozgaria, where every living creature, be it a plant, an animal or a person, is endowed with magic from birth. Some are afraid of them, others are eager to kill, but no one except the exiled magician knows why they are together.