But your relief was not to last.

For what was this existence with your one true VOCATION denied to you? 
Who remained that might DUEL with you in earnest?

You embarked on an odyssey that took you from the STREETS OF COLUMBIA to NEW AUSTIN COUNTY, from  REACH’S ORBIT to SERA’S DEPTHS, all for the sake of a single prize: 

A PROTEGE with which you might share the TRADE OF MAGES. A RIVAL who could at long last test your METTLE. And should the worst indeed come to pass…