Lord Ironhawk's son, Jordan Hawson; Althea; Drum, the blacksmith; and Jordan's kid brother, Squirt, search for Balthan, Althea's magician brother, the only one to know the truth about the evil infesting the land of Britannia.

The co-creator of Thieves World presents the exciting sequel to The Forge Of Virtue, in the series based on the popular Ultima role-playing games. A plucky band of adventurers returns to Britannia to find that it has been overtaken by a dark and evil force.