Pledging herself to Prince Parsigul's quest to gain his rightful place on the throne of his deposed father, the beautiful Lady Galinia risks violating one - or both - of the two commandments that every sorcerer learns in the Halls. First: With sorcery, aid no man in a fight against another man; and, second: Never cast a weave against another sorcerer. Violate the first, and a caster risks the trust slowly and painfully built up between sorcerers and the world of men over the generations; violate the second, one opens the possibility of a wizard's war - the original cause of the loss of trust...