On the remote world of Neti civilization has fallen and is now slowly rebuilding. But nothing here is what it seems. Here the Wizards' magic is real-the powers of physics and chemistry-and the secrets of the Traders are just as profound. Everyone thinks they know the truth about the past and the present, but almost everything they know is a lie. But one, unusually curious, Wizard will light the spark that sets the world on fire. Secrets will be revealed and a world will be changed forever. From the least likely world humans are about to return to the stars.