Acacia Chadsey was your average 21 year old girl; Her mother had passed away when she was little, leaving her father to raise her alone. Archer Chadsey was always his daughter's guru; having home schooled her since her mother passed, and trained her in every fighting style and weapon imaginable. After the great cataclysm on earth; many of the survivors were relocated to a far off planet, that's how Acacia and her father met Brice McKenzie and his younger sister Kari. Having lost their parents in the cataclysm back on Earth; 25 year old Brice and 18 year old Kari cautiously latch on to Acacia, to later find that was a smart move. After years of competing against the many other alien races co-inhabiting the planet; in a series of deadly trials set by the eldest inhabiting race to determine the numbers in each population, the Chadseys and the McKenzies are finally chosen to compete in the trials of Arcamathion. A test of strength, agility, intelect and above all else cooperation; a deadly game from which no human competitor has ever returned... yet.