Half MoonRaffin Andelaran's comfortable life as a Master of the Parran Guild of Mages is interrupted by a plea for help from his long time friend, Duke Permen of Orse. What Raffin discovers in the tiny Duchy is an ancient evil that he and his fellow Mages had believed could never threaten their people again.Raffin, accompanied by the Sothrasin War Master, Iain Neoran, the beautiful, knife-wielding Countess Esselaria Mespita and Raffin's remarkably incapable apprentice, Lendel, must journey to the remote and mysterious High Plains. They need to find and enlist the aid of Orvil, greatest of living Mages - the only man who might save the Kingdom of Parr and ultimately, the world. But the rising evil has already corrupted the Parran Guild of Mages. Raffin and his companions are pursued by a fanatical enemy - and the High Plains are already under threat by the forces of darkness.