A wandering wizard's journey carries him to a place he never wished to return to, and it thrusts him into chaos as he discovers that an unremarkable stone he has carried since he was a child is one of the seven ancient dampening stones created by ancient wizards to keep magic under control. He must escape and keep the stone out of the hands of Scarliss, an evil necromancer bent on using the stones to bring back his ancestor and bring ruin and decay to the world.
