As a fourteen-year-old village boy with a cursed body and abundant naivete, Kalen's singular goal in life is to become a guard in his village to protect those he cares about, his sister and mother.

Yet those dreams are dashed as he returns home one night to that very goal in flames.

Now injured and enslaved, Kalen wanders through the world a far emptier person than he once was. With a hole in his heart that is only fit to be filled by anger, and a lust for power.