A Path of Endless Crossroads

No one but a mage can kill a mage, according to the saying. And now they're vanishing.

Seven hundred years ago, war wracked Boscari. From the ashes rose a new system, peace and trade its mandates. Its enforcers: mages, possessed of uncanny martial skills and the ability to change the world around them just by thinking. At the war's end, they swore to dedicate these gifts to serving others.

Alia grew up isolated in the countryside and knows little about this history; she takes more interest in...