From the Back Cover: In the forestland of Akkallah-Besh, the preternatural children of the mythical Akka have dwelt for millennia. A fierce, war-like people, they have ever been in conflict with the races of men, elves, and dwarves that surround them. But in the year of the birth of Malieb Belgar, a man and woman of unknown origin come to the forest-home of the Akkallah, and with them a terrible vengeance follows from which none shall escape. Under the looming shadow of war, the divide between right and wrong shall be obscured, and the heart of every person shall be tested. Here, amidst a time of strife, no gallant heroes or supreme villains truly exist, for they are all just people, lost in the space between good and evil.