Zelia is a priestess with sky-blue skin and strange tempers. Half-human and half-air elemental, she lives uneasily in the College of Healers. Perceived as an outsider, and declared a renegade, she is nevertheless chosen for strange and dangerous task. Ares is an opportunist and adventurer. Neither elf nor human he is another outsider, welcomed by no one, mortal or otherwise. Misfit and outcast meet, and together they discover the possess unimaginable powers of sorcery which they will need to combat the scourge that threatens the land. For the evil necromanceer Queb, long though dead, has returned...