Pain...A sharp, tearing pain...Boothill is a fire mage who has always tried to help others...now banished from the village by a new priest who has dubbed Boothill a "son of the devil" and ordered Boothill banished from the village.... All those who tried to help Boothill were killed...

Boothill goes into the darkness of the forest, banished only because he could control fire...His body is full of wounds left by the fanatics of the new priest...The pain tears him apart....