Suspected of practicing the Black Word, young magician Leonard is banished from the Dawn Dew School - one of three witchcraft academies in Woundville. And he no longer has the right to create complex charms, and if he disobeys, he is only eternal imprisonment in the House of Sorrow - a special, terrible dungeon for rebellious and crazy magicians. Left to his own devices, he sets off on his own journey, but...