Young Haldor sets off on a quest to learn why he can shift into two forms, traveling to see the King at Zarrack's Castle with only a sarcastic and elderly bandit named Link to accompany him on his unexpected journey.
When there is word that the dark sorcerer who has been dead for nearly 2000 years had returned, the elven king and queen of the west deny its turth and refuse to send help. With the king and queen mad with fear, a elven girl, a few knights and the elven princesse set in secret to find the only thing in the world can kill him.