The Culling takes place in a fantasy world where every ten years exactly 1000 of the most dangerous citizens on the continent fight to the death. Hele (the main character) finds himself in an unfamiliar room with an unfamiliar weapon and a strange stone embedded in his arm. During The Culling killing enemy combatants grants you the ability to rise above normal mortal skills. Hele is forced to decide who he wants to become in a world filled with danger and death.