The Empire of Pilth Rabour is run by a tyrant, but that might be about to change. Assassins, rescue two orphan children from their would be murders. While they attempt to safely escort the children to a long lost uncle, a three-way war for control of the Empire of Pilth Rabour threatens to tear the empire apart. As the empire tries to settle into a new norm murderous trade factions, warlord prophets, demons and assassins constantly threaten the tenuous peace.