While the Five Kingdoms prepare for the Great Battle, the real war ignites not on the battlefield, but in the shadows.
King Severin seeks to finally unite the fractured realms, unaware that the foundations of his rule are rotting from within. A ruthlessly orchestrated conspiracy is in motion-one intended to wipe out the old kings and resurrect the ancient feud between the Crimson Cloaks and the Black Blades.
In the pristine capital of Shilan, the charismatic rogue Vasiliy and his band of Vanders infiltrate the court of the King of Kings. They play a high-stakes game of deception where a single misstep means death-or could see a thief sit on the highest throne.
Meanwhile, released from the psychological hell of the prison Thorn, a suicide squad led by the haunted Ion marches toward Eagle's Bridge, straight into the jaws of a reawakened war.
As history is rewritten in blood, an ancient evil stirs in the dark waters, luring the innocent into the void. From his tower, the chronicler Yar observes the rays of the Five extinguishing one by one.
In the coming darkness, only the wolves and the merchants remain.