This story begins with four friends from the Northern Empire arriving in the port city of Farang. Three men—warriors and commanders—arrive incognito and without their regiments, and one woman who, in fact, isn’t a woman at all…
In this quartet, one of the men is a sacrificial victim seeking redemption, though he doesn’t know it. Another has the gift of invulnerability. The third belongs to the small people of Vagars and is less than three cubits tall. But of the three, he is the most dangerous.