A once-renowned royal wizard, former tutor to the king himself, has long since fallen into obscurity. Now middle-aged and adrift, he wanders from place to place doing odd jobs by day and making love to drinks in taverns by night.
Just 10 years ago, he helped raise the thoughtful and ambitious prince but deep down was afraid, a boy haunted by fear of loss, weakness, and the fragile nature of peace. Now that prince wears the crown. After the tragic assassination of his father. With his fear growing more and more day by day. Drowning him.
Royal guards began conscripting wizards and witches for a secretive royal endeavor. The only ones who knew it's purpose were the king and whoever chose to talk to him.
When the fallen mentor is discovered and summoned back to the palace, he grows afraid, but deep down he knew that the kid was his responsibility. After all he was the one who abandoned him when he needed him the most.
Despite his cowardness he knew, to save the realm, he must redeem both himself and the king. Before whatever is being built in the shadows becomes something that cannot be undone.