Turner Hullin is walking the streets of his home town, one night, when he spies a young girl delivered to its shore by a mysterious giant. Her name is Dorothea Dovetail and she holds the key to finding a mythical place known as the Golem City. With the assistance of friends, family and an intrepid band of secret agents, Turner and Dorothea must flee from a corrupt and powerful organisation intent on claiming the knowledge the Golem City and attain the way to create powerful, nigh-unstoppable constructs that would serve their terrible ends.

A down-on-his-luck Necromancer and his dimwitted skeleton companion find a powerful, ancient artifact. But when it accidentally goes off and kills a powerful Paladin, they're forced to flee town. After meeting up with a young woman and her Ogre companion, the Necromancer finds a new purpose and a new life.