Reborn in the ancient world of magery and adventure, Sorefen, a lone human soul finds themself inhabiting the body of a dead man.

Unluckily for them, the dead man was not a legendary warrior, a wizened mage or a prophesied hero. No, Shale Kadran was an indentured labourer sentenced to work in Carrigan's Blight; a cursed battlefield of no use to anyone for untold years. The Blight is a volatile exclusion zone, an ashen wasteland home only to the unlucky few condemned to decontaminate the cursed land and contain the rot that breeds from within it.

Himself transformed by the magic fallout that destroyed the land, Shale was an outcast. Stranded among soldiers, murderers and monsters, he must prove himself or die. Again. Because change is coming, no matter who denies it.

The spirits have been whispering of an imminent calamity. They've converged upon the Blight in anticipation of the Awakening. For the One to be reborn from the depths. For the end of all ends!