Mage Bremer Roland Tiergarten, second-line Battle Mage of the Kingdom of Albion, has a problem. Numerous problems, actually, between court intrigue, an occasionally grating boyfriend, being stuck on a small ship in the middle of the ocean, and one large, stupid lizard. It takes a certain kind of person to be a hero though - the kind of idiot who agrees to cross the ocean on a leaky old boat, fighting pirates and boredom (but mostly boredom) the whole way. Everyone wants to be a dragon slayer, right?
