Early in the spring of common year 595, in the month of Readying, four adventurers have been thrust together by old ties and happenstance, or perhaps Fate itself, as the turn of an Age comes to an end and another rests just beyond the horizon. Will their simple quest to aid a young man with an unfortunate debt turn into something more? An outcast druid, a wandering monk, a questing paladin, and a dwarf vagabond-priest; an unlikely group stands together as great evil begins to writhe just beneath the surface of the world...