Calen Rusk returned from the Outer Island to find everything gone: his home, his parents, even the funeral. Branded emotionally unstable and slapped with a probationary magic license, Calen is shoved back into a world that no longer has a place for him.

But grief lingers - not just in memory, but in magic.

When Calen begins to manifest strange illusions drawn from his past, he unwittingly activates a spell that should not exist - a subconscious projection called Echo Veil. Memories replay like holograms. Voices of the dead whisper through the walls. And when others begin to see them too... the Combine starts to take notice.

Teaming up with a sharp-tongued enchantress and a half-broken war mage, Calen takes on freelance jobs in forgotten tunnels, resonance-soaked ruins, and broken districts filled with ghosts of another kind. All the while, his spell grows stronger. Stranger. And more alive.