The Tale of Tarrance

Tarrance is just an ordinary guy in an ordinary village leading an ordinary life. That's what anyone who knew him would say but what people think they know and what the truth of the matter is can be worlds apart.

The truth is that Tarrance has a gift, the gift of magic, but in the Serene Orrosian Empire that gift is made a curse by the Holy Church of Orros, that would see any magic in the world destroyed and those that wield it purged. The truth is that Tarrance is terrified the church might find him, that his few friends in the village discover the truth about him; and that what is left of his family, his grandmother, might turn on him if his secret is brought to light.

But when a plague hits the village and so many succumb to the illness, when his grandmother's life hangs in the balance, the fear of doing nothing is stronger.