A young boy's gentle heart is twisted into wreckage; hewn into pieces and washed away with the blood in the streams behind his family home, as he nearly dies trying to protect his brother. The horrifying event will leave him so shaken and terrified that it will take 15 years before he gains the courage to find out why when the past comes back to haunt him.
A fallen mercenary awakens from his death and finds redemption at the bottom of a deep ravine, when resting in the snow beside him is a divine tool made just for him. He believes that he's been rejected by the heavens and sent back as punishment for a life of murderous violence, but when a strange 'pulling' sensation and an aching heat in his right hand lead him to a quiet cabin in the woods, the born-again warrior soon realizes the cruel irony of what he's been tasked with, and that truly nothing, not even death, is free.
Facing south over the Crucio Sea, stand 17 ancient defense towers now serving as a prison for the worst of the realm's criminals. Here, pinned between the prison wall that stretches around the monolithic spires and the edge of a wind-swept cliff, high above the endless crashing of the sea on stone, where ravenous wyverns scour the rocky shores for plump sea mammals and wayward fishermen, there are no valid hopes of escape. And if you're innocent and sane, then 13 years is a long time to pray for death.
There are some who believe that those who have committed vulgar actions against others or themselves, have shattered a part of their inner-being; condemning the fractured pieces of their collective sub-conscience to be reborn into another place and time; an ultimate fantasy, where a part of their identity will strive to live-out an entirely different reality. Welcome to the Queen's Realm; a land for the afflicted creatures of all gods, of all things majestic... and monstrous. In a world that grows with every woeful mind that crosses over in the darkness, a new legend is about to be born.