This is the story of the life and times of Vinas Solamnus, founder of the Knights of Solamnia. Once praetor (general) of the Ergothian Army, when Solamnus rode out to the frontier to subdue a revolution he became infatuated with the rebels' cause, and took it up as his own. This is the story of the evil nobleman's conversion from the ways of the Empire to the Oath and the Measure.

The story of the second-greatest mage of Krynn has never been told. Until now. Ever wonder what happened to Fistandantilus after the Dwarfgate War? Or what some of his greatest, ah, accomplishments were before he was destroyed by Raistlin Majere? Relive the thousand year life of one of the blackest of the black robes.