And yet, despite these big differences, a Warrior dad and a Thief mom conceive a child named Mallory because of their forbidden love – those who are engrossed in multi-tribal relations are exiled and end up dead in the woods. This was the same for the parents after the child was conceived. Mallory was taken in as a Thief, though the thieves had a bad feeling about this black-haired Thief.

Mallory himself was kept as a secret to the Warriors. The Thieves more than knew about the possible consequences of multi-tribal children – a generation before a Thief parent mated with a Magician parent… both tribes ended up nearly killing all of the Thieves and Magicians. Now there is only 10 Thieves and 10 Magicians… a very little problem with Thieves (in fact, they work very well with small numbers) but works against for the Magicians.

Mallory was trained very well, but secretly. He was taught by the one and only legendary Assassin instructor, Damien, also a black-haired but mysterious individual. Mallory was a prodigy, surely to surpass the Thief ace, Ricster, a slightly dirty blonde haired character that is nothing more than the tribal equivalent of military – the other Thieves also being used as military.

But Mallory was being more than used for military. By the time he was ten years old, the tribe began to encounter much more monsters than the rest of the tribes, killing one reckless beginner Thief in the process. Mallory was being used as some sort of bait… wherever he went, the monsters went as well. Place dear old Mallory into the woods, the monsters would gather there with Mallory wounded and the Thieves would kill them off before Mallory would be killed.

But the monsters grew more and more powerful in each year…