Lien’s mission to rescue a friend is constantly interrupted by people who want him to be say a knight, or a king, or even dead.
Lien considered growing up in a haunted forest adopted by a shamanic tribe to be pretty exciting, but even that can’t prepare him for discovery by his own people.
For everyone seems to have a different idea of who he might – or should – be, though no-one’s interested in what he thinks about it or his own mission to find his missing honorary aunt: the only person who might actually know the truth.
It seems the poor boy might be heir to a dangerous throne – that’ll get him killed – though he might not be and that could get him killed too; he might have a glorious future as a knight, but that seems to upset a lot of people; he could be the Mandala, the avatar of Justice, which won’t get him killed, but pretty much wrecks his life from this point on; or he might just be a really ordinary kid, which will make a lot of rich, powerful and dangerous folk look pretty stupid.
Saddle up for a swashbuckling adventure across Alttica, a splendid medieval world where the taller the story, the more likely it is to be true.