In the lands of Ivadona and Rhydona, magic was not always the way it was. Before the elementalists, there were the children of King Thomas of Triadona. Before the darkness unearthed by Ursula and Larein, there was the unfathomable oblivion of the shadow. Before there was a fractured soul, there was a Stone of Change. Witness the birth of modern Ivadona and Rhydona. (This is the prequel, possibly the first in a series, to the Elementalist Quartet)