A group of three strangers gets caught in a brawl between two mages at a local saloon, bound by circumstance they must find a way to avoid a historically quite deadly force. that of the Grim Shepherd, Yama Astraea. Oliver Norn; a young oracle plagued by visions of an ever changing, Surya Helios; a failed mage turned con-man and warlock, and Zhu; a native of the newly colonised continent of Vergas.