You have been betrayed. The magic-wielding Aldor who once pulled you from the hands of the shadowfell is dead. Your hometown is burning. Your only surviving childhood friend has been taken captive by the monsters responsible, carried south toward Targoth beyond the Burning Swamp. Standing with you on the road ahead: Drissa, the Alethi — a two-headed Raakmiri rogue — the axe-wielding Uplander Otarr, and an army of skeletons. It is a strange group. It will have to do.