Two worlds collide when Prince Soleil is the target of an assassination attempt shortly before his sixteenth name day. The would-be assassin, another boy named Zevrith, is captured and as his punishment is made to stay beside Soleil and protect him with his own life. Unable to get too far away from one another, the pair set out on an adventure to release Sunspire Citadel and the tribal lands from the dark shroud that has befallen them.