The floating city of Paradisus hasn't known peace since it was first thrust into the sky several millennia ago, when a bloody coup orchestrated by the Dark Mages deposed one tyrant only to elevate another. Under the cruel reign of the Lunar Council and its leader, Vyndalor Starshade, the once proud and prosperous Ambrosi elves came to lead lives marked only by poverty, plague, and starvation, but none moreso than the Life Mages. Orphaned by this oppressive regime, Solancia Sunblood commands a ragtag group of Life Mage guerilla fighters to terrorize their Dark Mage counterparts and reclaim the city. When her plot to take out a potential threat kills an innocent man, the Lunar Council swoops in to turn his magically-gifted but docile son, Lunoc Owlcrest, into a spy, enticing him into a life of service with promises of luxury and vengeance against the mistress of this new revolution. In the midst of his work, Lunoc stumbles upon a truth so powerful that it could unite his people and wrest all power away from High Councilor Starshade forever... at the cost of the ancient blood feud neither Life nor Dark mage is ready to abandon.