Introduction: It has been five years since the Fall of Infarlin. Red Company, once the kingdom鈥檚 elite Royal Guard, is now reduced to working as a mercenary band in the chaos that has engulfed the continent since the fall in order to survive another day.The Company arrives in the town of Elgurid to find its inhabitants terrorized by a string of gruesome, unexplained murders. Smelling a payday, Red Company鈥檚 Captain agrees to get to the bottom of the mystery only to discover that the job is far more dangerous than he first thought and is forced to decide if he is going to risk his Company to protect the very people who once turned their backs on his beloved King, or to break a sacred oath, and walk away from a desperate people in their most desperate hour....