The Age of Discovery has begun, and it has enemies.

Taylor DeLanion, the young and impetuous Lector of Spiritual Arts at Nexus, is training the strongest practitioners seen in generations. His plan to import otherworldly science and technology is spawning new industries, while printing presses spread the new ideas across Tenobre. Everything is going according to plan.

Or it was, until a Unity Church official arrives to inspect the school. Their message is clear: a powerful faction in the church refuses to acknowledge Taylor's students, no matter how good they are.

While the Nexus students prove their worth in Lavradio's civil war, the church that doesn't want them slips into a crisis of its own making. Soon, the Unity will be too weak to protect the faithful. When that happens, Taylor won't have many options if he wants to save civilization.

It's a choice that will cost him everything.