<p>In the westernmost province of the Kingdom of the Isles, upon the world of Midkemia, an orphan kitchen boy named Pug was made apprentice to the magician Kulgan.</p><p>Here starts an adventure that will span lifetimes and worlds. Discover where the story begins.</p>
<p>The world had changed even before I discovered the foreign ship wrecked on the shore below Crydee Castle, but it was the harbinger of the chaos and death that was coming to our door.</p><p>War had come to the Kingdom of the Isles, and in the years that followed it would scatter my friends across the world. I longed to train as a warrior and fight alongside our duke like my foster-brother, but when the time came, I was not offered that choice. My fate would be shaped by other forces.</p><p>My name is Pug. I was once an orphaned kitchen boy, with no family and no prospects, but I am destined to become a master magician…</p>
