However, her attempt to learn more is unsuccessful, and Sonea continues to lose control of her powers, setting fire to her surroundings repeatedly, before Lord Rothen at last locates her.Īt the magician's Guild, Lord Rothen and the sinister Fergun fight for Sonea's mentorship, though she is uninterested in training and only wants to return home to her friends and family. With Cery, she sneaks into the Magician's Guild in an attempt to gain knowledge of how to control her magic, and observes a black-robed magician covered in blood performing a strange rite on a servant. She flees with her friend Cery, eventually seeking the aid of the shady Thieves, who see the value of having their own magician and take her under their care. But Sonea both distrusts the Guild for their apparent lack of compassion for the poor dwells and fears their reprisal for her accidental injury of Lord Fergun.

Lords Dannyl and Rothen lead the search into the slums, worried that Sonea's increasingly uncontrolled magic will harm her and those around her. Although young gang members gather to throw rocks at them, the magicians are protected by a magical shield-until Sonea, a young dwell, hurls a rock through their barrier and injures the magician Lord Fergun.įearing a rogue magician, the Guild begins searching for Sonea. Each winter in Imardin, the capital city of Kyralia, the streets are purged of the 'dwells', the city's poor under-class, by magicians who drive away the inhabitants of the city's slums.

The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan