In the 107th Year of the 4th Age, a young assassin named Racath Thanjel rose against the Demonic Dominion. He would become the Savior of Io, a hero sent by God Himself to free the shackled Humans, return the Elves from their hundred-year exile, and preserve his dying race, the battle-mage people of the Majiski. But there was a time before all that. Before the Genshwin assassins took him into their flock. A time when misery and despair clouded Racath's life. Just a naive, recently-orphaned nine-year-old, he must learn the cruel ways of a world that he has been hidden from his entire life—a world ruled by the Demons and their pawns, where the only solace can be found in stories, passing shadows, and the company of fire.