Sauron, the most feared name in all of Arda, greatest power against the forces of good and enslaver of all. But before the forging of the One Ring, before the Fall of Numeanor, he was a broken person wandering the world trying to find out his next course of action.

In every other timeline, Sauron’s brief moment of repentance is soon squashed by his desire for power. But this time, a chance meeting with his Old Master Aule results in him being given the chance to begin anew in a new world, one were he could learn the lessons of friendship and forgiveness he truly needed. Will Sauron, now called Mairon once again, learn the errors of his ways, or will the temptations of the darkness be too much for him to resist?