This world doesn't hand out second chances. The magical community has its elite, its outcasts, its enforcers, and its criminals — and plenty of people who are a little bit of all four. Prodigies burn out. Rule-breakers sometimes win. Every path has a price, and somebody's already died on every road you might take. You were born into this, or maybe you just found out about it — either way, you're in it now, and there's no going back. Your story starts the moment you take your first step.