The Rainbow Abyss
When Rhion's master, the wizard Jaldis, tells him of the Dark Well, a portal to other universes, and the magical cry for help he heard from it, he is inclined to not care. The world he and Jaldis live in fears, hates, and mistrusts wizards. What few mages exist are splintered into several sects. But Jaldis fears that the mysterious other world, where magic is dead, may mean that magic could die in their world as well and wishes to go to their aid. Before they can mount an expedition though the Dark Well, though, they are chased out of the city, and several years pass before Jaldis can make another Well, and try to go though. Rhion emerges from the Well into a strange and alien place...