For Cedric of Chessington, every day is the same: full of poverty and despair. Then a stranger comes to the city, and Cedric discovers the stranger’s humility belies great strength and wisdom.
Fairos thought he had sentenced Leinad to death in the Banteen desert. But he was wrong. Leinad survived. Now, trained by the King himself, Leinad returns.
Sixteen-year-old Leinad thought he was only a common farmer’s son. But he has a calling no other man in the entire kingdom of Arrethtrae can fulfill—a calling given him by the King himself.