Phoenix is a young Fire Elemental from a city in the fire country called Yaag. He has the altogether unheard of ability to receive fallen Elementals powers for a short time, as long as he is in close proximity to them at the time of their death. A bone chilling prophecy will turn him into a seemingly power hungry villian, but what are his real motives for the atrocities he is committing?

Krut, an exiled northern barbarian, & the sword-wench he knows as Damsel, are a pair of wandering mercenaries struggling to keep their purses full. When a nobleman makes them an offer it seems too good to turn down, but dark sorcery is their only reward. Arrested by the magi's personal guard alongside a half-elf minstrel & a girl who can cast magic though never having been taught a spell in her life, the two of them must pit their steel & cunning against the magi of the fifth & last tower & the dark secret it holds.