Alain Sumner is a diminutive boy with dreams of becoming a master swordsman. It has been three years since his mother, the Arch Mage disappeared pursuing the dangerous fugitive known as the Legion. When the Legion resurfaces in the Northern Wilds, an expedition is launched to bring him to justice, and Alain is determined to be included by whatever means necessary to discover his mother’s fate, only to discover that it may well cost him everything he holds dear.