The driving plot of Mondigan is the continued war between the people of Heilmdor and Tyris. The former is a snowy, superstitious country which wants to extend its land into the more fertile latter.
I am playing around with an idea: Because he is a prince born with no magic powers, Sorian (Rivek's nemesis and foil) must compensate. He is intelligent, and with the help of magic-users under his command, mechanizes the local animal population to aid the Heilmdor, which never had a huge population to begin with. The animal armies are driven by a combination of magic and technology. However, they are difficult to control, often brutally murdering their handlers.
One of these creatures is defeated and brought back to the Tyrisian camp. A scientist there, Eamon Maier, deciphers how it works, but he finds flaws in the mechanism. Rivek is no engineering genius, but he is good at math. He reads the equation and points out that Eamon already has the answer that he's looking for.
"I know - but that's not possible. That doesn't exist!"
The missing variable is dark magic. While the creatures' limbs are driven by light magic, their minds must be captained by the opposite - and vice-versa. This puts Rivek right in the middle of a campaign to locate more dark magic users, one which eventually sends him back to his Alisian homeland.
"You knew the answer, Eamon. You simply refused to believe it."
I think this one was a squid.
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