Humans certainly are a nearly extinct minority among the warrior-slave races…their will and memory suppressed with a tyrannical and unstoppable empire of magic-wielding elves. But a couple of legends that tell of another time, when humans as well as the various other slave races were free, tales of the hero who’ll return one day to lead them within an uprising against their experts. That hero, or so the stories state, will be a individual called Drakis. But Drakis Sha-Timuran, a individual warrior-slave of Home Timuran, gives no credence to these legends. In the end, he is content in his existence, fighting for the glory of his House along with the various other users of his Cohort. But because they embark on the final stage of a campaign to bring down the last dwarf king, neither Drakis nor his comrades can foresee the world because they know it really is about to come crashing down around them.