There is no magick.
There is no escape.
Open your eyes, Merius. Yes. Leave the fire behind. Your heart is warm, now. You don’t need the fire. Just look to the light and live...
The first words Merius ever heard are not unusual within the Storn’s walls. The same words are heard by each and every member as they awaken in the fiery heart of their Velar — the vast, stone fortresses which remain their homes for life.
Within the walls of Velar Tyrinil, Merius is taught that the outside is forbidden, that he must simply perform his duties, give thanks to the Preservers, and tribute to the Beings, and never dare think of anything more.
Yet all is not as it seems in Velar Tyrinil, and soon, the most forbidden of all the Storn’s Precepts is unwittingly broken. For even in this place, magick does exist, and Merius has found it...