At the stroke of midnight, under an August sky in New Mexico, the Perseid Meteor shower went from displaying one or two meteors per minute to becoming ablaze, continuously, with thousands. In just a half a minute magic had randomly and secretly gifted mortals all around the world with powers and immortality, by way of this shower. Gifting has happened every few hundred years, for thousands of years and magicals from the very first generation learned long ago that they could no longer live among mortals due to the fear and jealousy from those who were not gifted. So they created a realm apart...