In the world of Gaya there are but seven Hunters, the militant servants of Dal the Protector. Their task is a dangerous one: they must root out enclaves of the nefarious Cult of Katavi, the Demon Lord. Kallis, one of the most skilled Hunters, has devoted his life to this holy service. Yet in the two thousand years since the fall of the old Soranian empire, there has been little real threat to the stability of the civilized nations.

All of that changes with the birth of a halfbreed – half human, half demon – in Pyria, the greatest of the civilized nations. No such birth has occurred since the fall of the old world. The creature flees into the wilderness before it can be killed and Kallis is tasked with tracking it down and destroying it. The journey takes him and his priestly companion, Vander, deep into the barbaric lands to the south, where the devolved half-men of Goraspa live in scattered tribes, scratching out a living from a harsh and unforgiving land. The Goraspans themselves are the sad remnants of the very people who once ruled the world, the Soranians, yet now they are little more than animals – or so it has always been. Rumors of a new leader among the Goraspans has stricken fear into the hearts of the leaders of the free world, and as Kallis and Vander pursue their quarry, it becomes clear this is more than a quest to find a single aberration; this is a mission to save the world from a terrible fate. The echoes of the dark past resonate ever more loudly with each passing mile, leading to an ultimate confrontation between the Hunter and and the greatest evil his world has ever known.