Never before had King Arthur’s life been illuminated so thoroughly. Was he really as great as medieval novels tell of him? Who wrote them, and for what reason? Why did the holy Catholic Church try to turn Arthur into an image of the perfect knight? In recent years, an undefeated Van Helle had been at Arthur’s side—a mysterious warrior about whom legends were made and whom the Secret College pursued. No one knows for sure what the Secret College of Magi is; all that is known is that it has wrapped the world in its tentacles. Behind each of us, a Secret College may stand, controlling us like puppets and stitching magical patterns out of our fates—patterns whose meaning is unknown to the ordinary mortal.