Secrets and death. The Isle is made of both. Enter a broiling mass of blood feuds and bitter conflicts between the battles races of Mage and Arcane. Life is a commodity to be bought and sold. To some it is murder, to the Valley of the Ri it is business. Mistral, an abandoned orphan, finds her way to the mysterious Valley of the Ri to train as a warrior and assassin. There, amongst the dispossessed of the Isle, she finds there is so much more to life...