On the run from a mad king and living on the streets of his sworn enemies, Niklas assumed his life had bottomed out. After all, how much worse could it get? Apparently, a lot. When one of his closest allies, the priest Matthias, is murdered by a shadowy group known only as the Marauders, he swears to bring them to justice. Yet the more he learns about their activities, the more he realizes their intentions are...