A terrible fate—to be a Mad Bard, and to know in your life only duty, changing the destinies of worlds without having the right to help even your loved ones. Not everyone, even a genius bard, gets it after death. Few are taken as apprentices—only those who have passed through hell and not betrayed their soul, not extinguished the divine fire within it. So it has been since time immemorial, for millions of years. But everything eventually changes… and this did too. By some miracle, a seventeen-year-old medieval girl one day found herself in the Castle at the Edge of the Abyss… At first glance, what could naive children possibly do? As it turned out, a lot. In time, this girl altered the very essence of the structure of the Mad Bards; she became the first Bard of a new formation and pulled the rest along with her…