All stories of great heroes must begin somewhere this one starts with the end. Talayna was the last of her name. For her carrying the Elvin Moonsong sir name had never made a bit of difference in her life. She lives her life looking like a peasant in an attempt to mask her beauty from the outside world. Her only dream was to become a master magician. When in her third year she comes to the point no student with high hopes wants to hear. "Do better or fail the following year." Despite her amazing abilities with magic, and the love of the natural world, she cannot control the mage fire. Her inability to move the flame about could cost her the future she so desperately wanted. Airlyn Starburst would never have guessed the tool to help his fellow Star elves was about to be placed into his unemotional Elvin hands. When he met with a friend it was to take the large request for plants from his home land. The Fiery yet shy street rat he encountered was not the image he had in mind as the inheritor to a great legacy. Mindful that one misstep could cost him all, he never the less undertakes the girl as a student, and aid. Evil lurks in the shadows taring at foundations for all the peoples of Bellathea. At every turn the instrument of darkness uses any opportunity to remove the one time advisor from his path. Convinced of his own personal destiny he will stop at nothing to make his plans a reality.