"The world ended all those years ago. Back before the sea rose around us, the hero failed in his mission. In doing so he brought upon this world a force of nature we could never have fought. I know not of who or what caused the end of the world as truly on the hero himself would know. What little our ancestors know of the apocalypse came with the refugees that entered Raniz shortly before we closed ourselves off. They spoke of creatures long dead and monstrosities never seen before. Now it's been hundreds of years and no one knows of what lies outside of our city, oh but we know of what lies within. Heaps of rot convinced they have souls and rats like you and me, who sold ours long ago for a pound of bread." Stubborn Flame is a fantasy story centered around the life of a young bastard child in the City of Raniz, the last home to man in a dead world. This is the story of Alev, the parentless child born and raised in the gutter of the poorest corner of Raniz. This is how he lived, this is how he died.