In this warm, whimsical fantasy comedy, Nova, a spirited three-and-a-half-year-old half-demon girl, is sent off by her destitute father Baal, king of the bankrupt demon realm, to find her long-estranged mother Serena—headmistress of the elite Moonlight Academy across the magic continent. After a scrappy solo journey, Nova is rejected by Moonlight Academy for being too young and appearing magically mediocre, with four faint, scattered elemental affinities written off as a useless mess. She is taken in by Frontier Academy, a ragtag, dirt-poor school run by four found brothers: the elf Elvin, human Jack, dragonborn Brock, and dwarf Barin. What they dismiss as a flawed gift soon unfolds as the mythic chaos affinity: a once-in-ten-millennia talent that devours all forms of magic. As Nova’s power explodes, the cash-strapped academy swears to guard her secret and raise their first ever female student, scrambling to afford the cost of nurturing a world-shaking prodigy.
