Al was born into a landed family; his life had been all planned out for him from what he would do to whom he would marry. But on the eve of his eighteenth birthday he has a frightening vision and it doesn't take long before his life is tossed into chaos. Banished by his family, exiled from his homeland and pursued by the Odio Magisterium for a crime he didn't commit, Al tries to create a new life, only to be hounded by his nightmarish vision, dark whisperings in his head and a chance encounter with one of the enemy's servants. Al discovers that there is more to him then he could ever have guessed and that he could be the only one capable of confronting and defeating the darkness that threatens to consume not just his home, but all of the lands