The road to redemption is long, peppered throughout with self-deprecation, extreme bodily injury and crotchety sorcerers. Lincoln Maxwell will soon learn these and other lessons as he is born into Idalore, a mythical world already lying in ruins. But this birth must begin with death. Pushed to the depths of depression, Lincoln commits the seemingly irredeemable: his suicide. He does not suspect, however, that this foolish act will set him on a new path, one that labels him a hero and his enemy the impossible.