Cast out of the prestigious beastmaster academy and ridiculed as an ill-omened peasant whose touch drives animals wild, Rowen resigns himself to mucking filthy stables. His miserable existence turns upside down when he risks his life to rescue an injured dark-winged foal, discovering his aura does not curse creatures but commands them.
When Rowen approaches a legendary testing scepter, all nine mythical pillars blaze with radiant energy, revealing his suppressed sovereign lineage to stunned professors. Rowen soon unmasks a shadowy religious council draining sacred fauna through taboo rituals, forcing the former stable hand to lead mythical guardian beasts into war.
