In an ancient and magical world ripe with adventure and teeming with danger, Aralu, a mystborn bladedancer and mercenary out of Olscar, Drozak, an aratheël Andaran Lion and practicer of the ancient way of the Arith-Lashar, Hrusk the Heft, a hulking ogren with a massive greataxe, Iruaka, a strange koroku mercenary, Niusha, a beautiful wandering aratheël bard, and Rhanviel, a lhurienathi shaman searching for a means to defeat the demon lord Rhevagaath, have been brought together by fate, as caravan guards for a caravan from Kelderhaag in Gelben to the city of Palanost in Andara, Land of the Blue Rose and the Black Lions. Neither of them knows what awaits...
