In the continent beyond the light of the one god, a segment of the armies of paladins sent to unify these forsaken lands begins a frantic pursuit when they discover that two of the brothers who were part of their order were killed with unholy magic from ancient times. Meanwhile the assassin, a man who had once been a great necromancer, emerges from the filth and misery to discover that the kingdom he once defended has become a mockery covered in ruins and dust.