In the world of Varna, a young man embarks from his home village to stop the most powerful Kshatriya warrior from inciting a war that will consume everything. He is joined by his mentor, a mystic man with a name known everywhere; a princess from his clan's greatest rival; a merchant who is not all that he seems; and a feared man from a legendary Brahmin clan and the banished young girl that serves him.
On their journey, they will encounter those that are enemies and those that are friends, as well as those that are both. They will travel to the ancient Ivory City and through the treacherous Maw. They will see the heroes and villains of the Canis in Fenrir, and the spectacular technology of the estranged Catar and their White Fleet. In the deepest reaches of Tomb mountain, they will meet the ancient Arachne and her disfigured followers. They will even journey to Elusyia, where the mythical Brahmin clans watch the world from behind an enchanted forest.
Together they will try to stop the Black Sun King from sundering the world, all with the help of beasts that are born from the depths of their souls; the Nasqal.