After succumbing to the temptations of a beautiful temptress, Strommand Greattrix finds himself heir to a kingdom of rubble and ash. In his anguish, he takes a vow of abstinence until he is able to overthrow the Damionites, who have slain his kin and conquered his homeland, and set his uncle–the last survivor of the Greattrix line besides himself–upon the throne.

Hurled from the decks of a great sky ship, Greattrix draws himself from the sands of Carparath, where only rats and bloodthirsty bandits keep a man’s company, and sets on a hopeless quest for justice … and vengeance!