In a time when outlaws and mercenaries serve as justice, and law and order is but a dream in a kingdom that hasn't seen peace in half of a lifetime, a shadowy figure enters a keep whose inhabitants have given themselves to the life of violence and debauchery that encompasses the desperate and evil alike. Wielding a massive iron sword, the figure persuades the miscreants to abide his dilemma, and leaves with a skin of water and bottle of spirits, freeing a sprightly fairy as passively as he would seemingly free his bladder. Rumors that he is known as the Black ...