A menacing evil, vile and lethal, has come to manifest beneath the opulent towers of glorious Asim-dar. Tasked with what appears to be the simple quest of taking the life of an unscrupulous nobleman, Quillan, the Lion of Vashtan, soon finds his straight-forward mission far from the easy undertaking he had first envisaged!

Encountering a shape-shifting necromancer, a bloodthirsty Slaver and a beautiful Lybezian slave girl to boot, Quillan strides through his pre-classical world like an unstoppable juggernaut to produce a fast paced adventure filled with barbaric brutality, fiendish sorcery and the cut and thrust of a world where all hangs on the edge of the sharpest blade.