Magic was seen as a gift bestowed by the gods. But what happens when a good-for-nothing prince with no talent whatsoever encounters a technological creation from another world...? From that moment on, knowledge lights up his world, and the elements become his friends. The Harpers' Alliance, whose members are called madmen but whose duty is to keep the world in balance and out of the notice of powerful beings; the Dwarves and Elves living beneath human city-states; the dragons, creatures of legend... One by one, the world's legends become part of his story. In the end, his name will be passed down as a legend, sung by bards, and he will become an indispensable law in the workings of time.
