This Gentle Daughter of Oblivion

A love-struck sorcerer's attempt to bring his beloved to Mundus begins a string of events that culminates at the College of Winterhold a thousand years later, as the College contends with a critical decline in the power of magic, assisted by a distant descendant of Abnur Tharn; the Lady of Roses; the Dragonborn; and Manke Dagon, a vulgar but talented Xivilai necromancer.