The Realm teeters on the verge of collapse as the usurping King Malkus seeks to bring the last of the free peoples to heel. Calling forth nightmarish creatures from an ancient tome, he lays waste to the land. Three unlikely heroes arise. Thistle, of the Elvin kind, wrestles with a journey a thousand years in the making. Drog, the last of the Gnocuare, seeks only revenge against the vile ruler who has decimated his people. And Suraa, an escaped prisoner from Sonderee, finds herself thrust into a savage turmoil that threatens to consume the Realm itself. Together, they battle the unspeakable evil of Lord Malkus, each discovering something beyond themselves; something larger than their personal grief and pain. Indeed an idea even grander than life itself.