Lori Anderson has always been Edenbright city's only elemental mage. After 24 years of contented living with her noble family and their unique ward, Geoffrey, she finds herself fleeing to safety on a ship-there's been an assassination, and her beloved royal family has been dethroned.

Stuck for months on the open water, she sails the unnamed seas until a storm wrecks her vessel and casts her onto the coast of Vilderia. Lori is forced to seek safety in the nearby forest, with zero survival skills and no other means but dangerous chaos magic to help her survive to the next day.

But a fateful encounter at her makeshift camp will change her circumstances, and her future, forever. Together, Lori and this mysterious creature set out on a quest to rescue someone who has been thrown into the same fate as her.

When the creature questions her true identity, Lori finds herself seeking out a link to her past she never knew existed. Now hunted and feared, she must set out to find the truth - no matter the consequences.