Broken and close to death, Wist staggers into the walled city on Tapasya and collapses at the feet of a statue commemorating his likeness. Incredibly, three and a half centuries have passed since he was last in the city and now he has returned, bereft of everything… even his memory.

Wist is rescued by Aviti, a young woman with her own mysteries to solve. He soon learns that the last time he left Tapasya, the land fractured from north to south. In the wake of his departure, oppression, persecution and civil war became the norm.

Then he begins a journey of discovery and redemption that will take him far across the desert continent of Tapasya. As he struggles to piece together his life from fractured recollections from the past, he is forced to face up to the failures of his life or risk the complete destruction of the land.