In the world of Urshan Dai, a society of telepaths live in secret. Their mission is to protect secret magic techniques that have long been abused by political leaders and persons of influence. A new initiate, Nadan, has passed the first round of initiation into the society; now he is confronted with buried secrets that are even deeper than he envisioned--namely, the existence of an interdimensional law of the gods, known as the Unseen Law, which has run amok ever since civilization began.