What to do if you happen to be born in a world that has become a hunting ground for dark forces; a world to which even the sun does not show its face, hiding behind a gray veil? You can hide in a corner in fear, waiting for death. You can decide that your house is on the edge and live as before - without looking back at the misfortunes that have befallen the world, believing until the last that a bitter fate will pass you personally. And only those are able to challenge the forces of Evil who have neither a house nor even their own corner left. Outcasts and outcasts - such as, for example, the wards of the sorcerer Brenn: the barbarian Sigradd, the sorceress Ravenna, the former thief Oswald and the landless knight Anders von Wellesheim. But what should they do if someone sided with forces hostile to all living things... not according to of your own free will, but by an unfortunate accident? And what if someone from the world of the living is ready to take advantage of the universal misfortune, seeking self-interest and power? Who then is more worthy of mercy, and who of punishment? Who is this time - undead or human?