Once there was a kingdom called Egglia where every kind of being lived in peace. Then the Ogres came — enormous, brutal, and indiscriminate in the destruction they caused — and the kingdom's ruler, the powerful wizard Kuff, made a decision: he sealed Egglia entirely inside a magical egg to protect it from being destroyed. It has waited there ever since. The story begins with the meeting that will determine whether the waiting is over: a girl born to save the world, and a red-capped boy born to destroy it, crossing paths for the first time.