Survivor of a once-mighty race of sorcerers, the spellcaster known to those of the Dragonrealm simply as Shade ever struggles to find an end to the curse he millennia ago brought upon himself in his hope to escape death...and worse. Instead of immortality, he was condemned to an endless series of lives alternating between darkness and light, with "death" only resurrecting him over and over. His blurred features and unstable but terrible powers a threat to friend and foe alike, the hooded sorcerer must struggle against not only those who would manipulate him, but also his very self. Worse, he must do so always aware that even the very land itself may have its own sinister designs upon him...