In the worst of times, the greatest Heroes and Villains emerge. War, and the Shadow of Death, stalk the inhabitants of the Island of Baden. A poisonous curse, the Darkness has spread from the heart of the Swamp of Leir. The forests of the south have been consumed by this, creeping doom. Even now, The Poisoned Lands are disappearing under the thick, black tar, of the Darkness. and so it is determined..blood and steel will be the instrument of fate. Life and Death, the deciding scales.