Dragons and sorcerers populate Atar's world. A lost prince taken in by a tribe of savage Scythians, he is hated and abused because of his disabilities. He does not know that he is to be the next Firestarter. As he is forced to confront evils he never imagined possible, he also gains the strength to find his voice and his honor. Watching and hating him, his half-brother, son of the evil wizard Dahaka, waits for the opportunity to take away Atar's destiny for himself. How will Atar and his werewolf companion and lover, Bulliwuf, thwart an evil they cannot see?