
However, the earl's favorite warrior, Chaeros, sympathizes with Kiall and offers to help him save Ravenna.

As a reward for his trouble, he is flogged in the public square.

The local authorities refuse to do anything, so a young man named Kiall, who worships Ravenna from afar but has barely even spoken to her, travels to the capital of New Gulgothir and demands that justice be done. A group of raiders who trade with the Nadir burn a small provincial village and steal over a dozen young women for the slave market, among them the daughter of a wealthy farmer named Ravenna. Now, there is only, fear, death and agony where there was once splendor and wealth. It has been years since the blood-mad Nadir hordes have swept over the face of the world and destroyed the noble civilizations that once grew upon it.
