
When the hope of redemption is balanced against the lure of revenge, which will prove stronger, flawed good or perfect evil? A dark fantasy set in a world where magic is a curse.

Are the sins of the fathers really visited upon the sons? And is there no way of breaking that cycle? Is evil doomed always to repeat itself, ruining everything good through its tainted seed?These are not the questions young Oswy is asking himself when he is sold to the witch-Lord...