Ry's life was idyllic, even as a Cervalyn living under the Imperium Solis. Loving parents, strong community, and a home nestled deep in the ancestral homeland of her people. Fate, however, has a brutalist way of altering expectations. Forcibly taken as payment for an overwhelming gambling debt her father accrued, Ry, barely an adult, found herself sold into the gladiatorial combat stadium known as The Arena Solis in the city of Magadan. Time and the horrors of ceaseless battle have seen the once carefree and kindhearted deerfolk girl molded into a killer, little more than a tool used to garner profit and spectators. Known now as the Monster of Magadan, a combatant beloved by the city for her ability to not just survive, but provide the blood they crave. Ry struggles with her own morality and a growing sense that she's losing herself to the violence when her routine of survival is thrown into flux upon the arrival of a new prisoner.