Throughout, nobody lets Hayden forget that his father was the Black prism and that the boy may turn out as evil as the man. He becomes friends with roommates Zane Laraby and Conner and with a girl named Tess Bonk the dragon ends up his animal “familiar.” While maintaining their grades, the four students must also perform as a group, using magic to survive simulated emergencies. For his studies, Hayden is outfitted with magical corrective bands-to help balance his immense power-and a headpiece that holds diamonds for him to view light through. And like his father, he possesses an innate talent for manipulating prisms. Despite having never met his father (who tried to conquer the Nine Lands), Hayden impresses Mizzenwald’s staff by surmising from the designs in the pentagonal foyer that there are five major arcana (Elixirs, Wands, Prisms, Conjury, and Powders). Astoundingly, the council decides that he should receive magical training at a school called Mizzenwald-the same school that Aleric Frost, Hayden’s insane, absentee father, once attended. Now in Kargath, the capital of Junir, 12-year-old Hayden is judged by a Council of Mages. Two years ago, the home of Hayden Frost and his mother suffered a magical explosion. The first volume in a YA series follows an orphan who can channel magic through prisms.
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