Traumatized as a young child, Keir Liam, now a young man who has chosen to live his life as a recluse, is asked by his adoptive father to go on an adventure in search for the missing Birrnian prince, Dar Banning. Liam must now decide to remain at the Temple to Barra, growing old in quiet solitude, or to leave the city of Kinsale and to see what the world of Gwer has to offer him.