A menacing evil, vile and lethal, has come to manifest beneath the opulent towers of glorious Asim-dar. Tasked with what appears to be the simple quest of taking the life of an unscrupulous nobleman, Quillan, the Lion of Vashtan, soon finds his mission far from the easy undertaking he had first envisaged! 

Encountering a shape-shifting necromancer, a bloodthirsty Slaver and a beautiful Lybezian slave girl to boot, Quillan strides through his pre-classical world like an unstoppable juggernaut to produce a fast-paced adventure filled with barbaric brutality, fiendish sorcery and the cut and thrust of a world where all hangs on the edge of the sharpest blade.