War, magic, and love beguile the story of the Mages, a clan who can control destructive elements to fight the mass of differing Dead Threats.
The Mages are separated into 5 destructive elemental groups known as Fulgor, (Lightning) Incendium, (Fire) Aqua, (Water) Glacies, (Ice) and Anima, (Air). They fight the Dead Threats of many forms, which roam the earth outside the boundaries protecting the ungifted. (Non-Mages.)
The books follow the life of Charlize, the sixth Elementum, also known as the sacrifice. She is the only Mage who can control and create every element.
On Charlize's eighteenth birthday, she undertakes a pilgrimage with her proud father Charras, and her childhood friend Christian, who knows nothing of his Mage heritage, although is bound to her somehow. She must visit each Mage clan on her journey, from the Sequoia village of the Anima, to the Ice Palace of the Aqua. The conclusion of her journey will wage a war against the rising mass of Dead Threats.
Along the way she must become a leader, learn to fall in love, and accept her dark fate. With prejudice for being the first female Elementum, hate and racism between clans and those of mixed blood, and the ultimate knowledge that her premature death will save the world; it’s about as easy as it sounds...