Alruna is a dryad living in a world that is dying. She is a spirit of life in a land that has been claimed by death, and the death is not natural — it is the product of the Necro-Industrialists, who have built an economy out of draining the earth. The poor remains of living beings called skele-men populate the wasteland, endlessly toiling. But whether those skele-men are actually the enemy, or whether they suffer under the Necro-Industrialists as much as the dryads do, is a question Alruna will have to answer. Salvation seems theoretically possible. The dead can still want things. But wanting heaven and being able to reach it are not the same thing — and the dead can only dig.