Sebastian is a brilliant child inventor but as he reaches a certain age he is pressured to choose between knighthood, a world of violence and death, and the church, a world of learning but with all the strings that come with it.
When his people are attacked he's jettisoned from his familiar surroundings into a wild landscape of beasts and bandits. He meets a worldly hermit that teaches him that life is more than binary choices.
While on a quest to recover a medicinal herb that can heal the warlock of a debilitating condition, our hero learns of an inside plot to infiltrate his castle and subjugate his friends and family.
With his new found knowledge and mentor he must return to his home and defend it from a marauding force.
