He bears the magical mark of a slave and the mark of Darkness, the aristocrats and guards of Alcord want his death... and the rogue Anta has no choice. One path now lies before him - a march to the Swell as part of the army of the Temple of the Seven Roads. Where not everyone returns from. There, where once every seven years the battlefields are covered with corpses and generously watered with the blood of those who do not allow the horde of creatures of Darkness to break through to the lands of people.