The power to Create and the power to Destroy divide the magical world into Evantar and Varyah, good and evil. The two sides despise each other, eradicating their opposition at the first sign of contact. Tsenian Windrunner stumbles into this war in the worst possible way-he releases the Shahadan, monsters of congealed, half-sentient Destruction magic. His only hope of setting this monumental mistake right is to ally with Brinelle, a knight-priestess of Creation magic, and seek the fabled Remnants. These stones, imbued with pure Creation magic, are their best chance to stand against the Shahadan. Then Windrunner's own magic begins to surface, and it isn't Creation-based. It's Destruction, angry and volatile, growing stronger with each passing day. But resisting the allure of Destruction magic, and convincing Brinelle he can do so, proves to be as much as a battle as anything the Shahadan can offer."