Book 1 in Wars of Light and Shadow. Half-brothers Lysaer s'Ilessid and Arithon s'Falenn, born to rival families on the splinter world of Dascen Alur, are exiled to an alien world, and then called upon to fulfill a prophecy that they will defeat a malicious being called the Mistwraith that has blotted out the sun in Athera. Little do they know that multiple factions are already vying for control of this world, and the Fellowship of Seven are all too aware that the half-brothers hold the future of Athera in their hands. And the Mistwraith has some plans of its own...