Years ago, mortal herbalist Aria sacrificed her eyesight and facial beauty by swallowing a virulent elixir to cure the dying elven monarch Silas, vanishing thereafter into impoverished exile. Seven years later, King Silas tours the rustic frontier, failing to recognize the blind, scarred peasant woman struggling alone to raise their secret twin daughters.
Subjected to haughty mockery and near-fatal celestial punishments by the oblivious sovereign, Aria stubbornly keeps her identity concealed to protect her children. But when the precocious girls rescue the elven Queen Mother and unleash royal magical signatures, a shattered Silas discovers the agonizing truth and falls to his knees in the dirt.
