Ardrestra, ‘The Land Remaining’: here live the last peoples of the world, the humans who survived the fall of the last Great Age—before an undead mage nearly ended all life, wiping every last elf and dwarf from the planet, and humanity was left to rebuild in the rubble.

In a small village on the edge of humanity, Ato is born, a mage who cannot cast spells, able to sense a beautiful world of magic that he can never touch—a divine error in an already broken world.
As Ato comes of age, he learns to want little, hope for nothing…until he befriends Pritii, The Last Elf, a ghostly woman who can bestow mana in exchange for service. Ato pledges himself to a new master, and finds hope again, but with the blessing of magic, comes responsibility: to protect his people, to serve his new queen.

And as new conflict stirs with those who wish to finish the undead mage’s work, Ato will find his faith and spirit tested, as he struggles against the chaos and strife of a world built atop rubble.