Long before he's known as one of the Fellowship of Seven's sorcerers, young Verrain sen Dient is just a boy whose singular gift can't be ignored. The Gallant traces how he comes to be apprenticed to the Fellowship, the ancient order of guardians who shape Athera's fate throughout Janny Wurts's Wars of Light and Shadow. Standing apart from the main sequence, it's a quiet origin story readable without the eleven-book saga behind it.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources