From the time he was a boy, Meric Vettor has tried to live a life of integrity. To abide by the tenets of honor and duty that were taught to him by his father and then reinforced as a soldier defending others. That all comes apart when he and his companions are wrongfully accused of treason by the new King . Disgraced and angry, they had to flee. Branded as traitors and sentenced to torture and death if ever captured, they must never return to the land and people they once swore to protect. When Meric comes to the aid of a woman and two children about to be abducted, he starts down a path that will once again see him and his friends in their homeland, being hunted. They soon find themselves embroiled in a fight with much greater consequences than their troubles with the King. Jumping into the fray despite the price on their heads, they must defeat merciless Orcs, Goblins and wargs, as well as the madman King that labeled them traitors, and all before his insanity allows an even greater evil to be unleashed. With unexpected allies and the aid of forbidden magic, they will face unimaginable danger on a quest to save their people and their world.