It starts with one man reconciling the difference between loyal soldier and murderer. Which is he? One act of defiance leads him away from the life he knew, crossing paths with an energetic and distracted stranger who dares to call him “friend.” One becomes two until they come across a third individual - a young, forlorn woman wielding an heirloom for a weapon yet always afraid to be near it. With her, the two men make a vow to avoid the unnecessary spilling of blood. And then comes the cleric, a man of secrets who wields literature and holy rhetoric like a weapon. But when a vicious Duke comes around to claim his protégé, Dane’s companions must understand and question the notorious epithet... Pale Devil. The four companions seek to escape, and so journey to a land of better pastures. But their destination is riddled with underworld secrets. They must question everything about their journey and themselves when they begin seeing the world through the eyes of an assassin, a thief, a bounty hunter, and an old soldier. Their true quest is survival.