Margaret Weiss' novel "The Forge of the Soul" is the prehistory of the famous "Saga of the Lance" ("Dragons of Autumn Twilight", "Dragons of Winter Night", "Dragons of Spring Dawn"), which tells about the coming of age of the future heroes of the War of the Lance. Six-year-old Raistlin Majere meets an archmage who gives him a chance to enter the school of sorcerers. The magicians from the Tower of High Sorcery watch him with secret alarm - they see the same shadows gathering over Raistlin that are inevitably creeping onto Ansalon. Raistlin is stubbornly moving towards his goal. But before becoming a real magician, he must pass the Test in the Tower of High Magic. A test that will completely change his life, almost ending it...