Mage Obak may be the foremost scholar of Mage's myths in Taderah, but he is also something of a problem. Dismissed from a mission to find Treloolir due to his arrogant attitude, his life begins to fall apart when his studies are passed to a rival scholar. He is sent away to a small coastal village and tries to learn a different way of living, but he still yearns to regain his old life.