Eddie, our protagonist, has always wanted to attend Edenfield University. Home of magical education created by the Nine Sages of Enlightenment. His studies is risky: failure entails expulsion, and eventual life in obscurity in the faraway fishing hamlet of Weshaven. Eddie is desperate to show he belongs in Edenfield and worthy of the Alchemical Tradition despite an unreliable magical source that regularly fails his alchemical projects.