we should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice possibly even more powerful than the average magicianthis year like every other the magicians of imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables cloaked in the protection of their sorcery they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their workuntil one enraged girl barely more than a child hurls a stone at the hated invadersand effortlessly penetrates their magical shieldwhat the magicians guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass there is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control