Fess, a native of the Valley of Magicians and an advisor to the Emperor of the Melyin Empire, after a deadly battle of the Diamond and Wooden Swords is thrown into Evial—one of the worlds of the Ordered. Fess has to begin all over: his memory is distorted and his magical abilities are weakened by unknown forces. Time does not wait—prophecies promise his new home a swift and terrible end. But neither Fess nor anyone else in Evial realizes that, without even knowing it, the hand leading to this outcome has been extended by those whose fate is to save worlds—combat mage Klara Hümme l and her companions, who got lost in the web of paths between realities.