Ian Paige is an 8th class mage who spent years killing on the orders of Emperor Ragnar of the Greenriver Empire, a close friend who came to see him as a threat and poisoned him for it. In his final moments Ian reaches for time magic and wakes thirty years earlier as a boy, every bit of his future knowledge intact. He enrolls again with an elite order of mages to rebuild the power he will need against the emperor who betrayed him.