To the sorcerers he was a failure. To the knights, little more than a squire. To the ogres, he was War-Bringer. Rejected by his sorcerous family, Brannis Solaran sought to make a name for himself in service to the knighthood. Stationed on the border of the ogrelands, he and his fellow knights have been ordered to drive back the ogre incursion and put an end to their raiding. He was armed with a sorcerer's education and a blade that bore a deadly magic.