Welcome to the synopsis of the first volume in "The Tantalizing Powers of Magic and War Series" called "The Legacy Has Begun." This volume opens up when you read about Kelly An'Tanis a White Wizard and instructor on one night has a very vivid dream. When she wakes up the next morning she quickly finds out in essence that her dream has come true. In her dream she dreams about her God, Traxias commanding her to preform a task for him. War, battles, and strife which has raged on for thousands of years are continuing and Traxias has grown tired of mankind not being able to live in peace, tranquility, and harmony. Battles rage across the Ten Kingdoms of the continent of Babashalon. But, Traxias shows Kelly in her dream that he has a solution to this dire problem. He has created what he calls "The Peace Stone." He tells Kelly that when she wakes up in the morning the gleaming white stone will be beneath her pillow and a white oak staff with an owl carved into its crest will be standing by her door. She is to get dressed and began forming a party of well-balanced members to help in assisting her on a quest that will take her to the far away Kingdom of the Kingdom of Quentaria. He tells Kelly if her party and her transport "The Peace Stone" to Mount Charnel in the Kingdom of Quentaria and place it on a white marble altar in a special cave and leave that the Kingdom of Quentaria that peace and tranquility will come to all the Ten Kingdoms of Babashalon. Kelly wakes and takes the stone and the staff to her best friend Cleric Robert who is the first of the members of her party she will try to recruit to go on the quest. She goes to Cleric Robert's small cottage and while there tells him about her dream of Traxias and shows him the gleaming white stone and the white oak staff. After trials and turbulations they finally began the quest by going to the village of Quarr in the Kingdom of Sardia.
Meanwhile, two farmers walk along a dusty road with their stubborn mule making their way to the fishing village of Pendere in the Kingdom of Haldara. They have to get to the village to purchase their meager supplies of flour and yeast so that their mother, Shayol, who is a widow can bake her bread for them to eat. They go to the village inn and meet two Kingdom soldiers there. Upon finding out Terl the oldest brother of Perl is eighteen and of an age to be inducted into the army recruit Terl to go back with them to Castle Haldra. Then the soldiers both find out that Terl and Perl are both gifted with reading and writing skills and so they talk Perl into going with them back to the castle. She is told that she will be put on a castle coach there and sent on to the magic city of Transvera to go to the Institute of Sorcery. Both Terl and Perl are excited by the coming of their new roles and though working around many blockages they finally began their journey to Castle Haldra with two important characters, Lieutenant Trakken and Sergeant Graul.
Some of the Kingdoms live in peace at least as much as they can from the warring Kingdoms such as the Kingdom of Pomala whose King, King Belare formulates a "grand plan" to take over each Kingdom individually until all the Kingdoms of Babashalon are under his control. The seasons pass and sinister and supernatural forces run rampant upon the lands. This is a tale about lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, wizards and visionaries, assassins and bastards, deadly monsters and evil villians coming together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, hangs perilously in the balance as each endeavors to survive within the Ten Kingdoms and beyond.