A renowned warrior, Brynhild Grimsdotter, and her biographer, William Barding, aid a young girl seeking vengeance for the murder of her father, a trinket-bearer and victim of the king's obsession with finding occult artifacts. When a madman resurrects from the shadows to exact revenge upon the land of White Cloud, they must join forces with an assassin and a knight to save its inhabitants. And then kill the king. But the girl's desire for vengeance...