At the age of 13, children are able to summon their familiars for the first time. Your family has always been ridiculed for having weak and useless familiars, until the day of your 13th birthday when you summon your familiar for the first time in the town square, as is procedure for all fisrt-summonings.

The crowd is silent, completely silent, as they stare at your familiar. One guy scrambles to the post office to notify the Royals. They've been looking for someone with a strong familiar, but they haven't disclosed why.