A nation's elite warriors vanished. A throne in jeopardy on the heels of murder. War devouring the survivors... The Kingsmen have vanished. Elite fighters for the king, they were summoned to re-swear their bonds or be charged with treason, and were never heard from again. Elohl den'Alrahel was just a boy when his people disappeared. Now a jaded military veteran, inked with the Blackmark and despised for it, he seeks the truth...