Yara is a world on the verge of dying. Wracked by a cataclysmic event less than a decade ago, its inhabitants seek to restore Yara before it is too late. After the Cataclysm, the Empress Mosaline decided to purge all mages as it was determined that their mis-use of innate magic that draws from Yara herself was the cause of the death of their world. Now she must rely on one mage--the most powerful mage of their time--to solve a series of murders in a city that stands on the precipice of power and peace.