The Age of Magic began when a university mathematician unleashed forces he could not control. The Sorcerer's Deluge swept the world, destroyed civilization and blew the Moon out of the sky. After eight hundred years, society has begun the climb back up, aided by mathematical magic.
Hondoll, the King's Magician, is a champion of rationality and rigor. But now the world is going insane, stampeding into the worship of two "Unborn Gods". The two cults hate each other, and threaten the end of the world on the day when either cult can bring its god to birth.
Can Hondoll's magic, mathematics and reason stand against crazy, unreasonable gods?