More than twelve years have passed since the end of the great war between the Horde and the Alliance. The orcs were defeated and exiled to guarded reservations. And the Alliance heroes have begun again to restore their lands from the brutal slaughter in the northern territories of Lordaeron.
Young paladin Tyrion Fordring fought against the orcs all his life, believing them to be soulless, bloody creatures. But one day his faith wavered. It was sparked by an act of a single orc—Tyrion found himself at the crossroads between questions: who is a human, and who is a monster? The paladin learns a different, completely unknown to humankind story about the life of the orcs.
A connection with a creature that any person is ready to kill puts his entire life and the life of his family in danger. A person will have to make the hardest choice in his life. Will Tyrion handle it—and will it be the right one?