He had been betrayed...

For seven years his life was hell, endless toil in a Kurtz work camp. His only comfort was the companionship of a Scraeling woman by the name of Isi.

When an opportunity to escape appeared they took it, and she followed him home, home to Helheim.

Helheim, a nation of industry, a nation toiling under lavish whims of the Emperor, a man more worried with his own gratification than the needs of his declining empire. A nation wishing to leave behind the sorcery of the past for the machines of the future.

He does not care about any of that, he only wants a safe place for Isi and himself,in order to achieve this he is willing to wade through rivers of blood, gunpowder and sorcery.

For sometimes all a man can do is demand reparations for the wrongs committed against him, even if that demand is at swordpoint...