In the Empire of Szaalenden, fourteen lancers were once sent to seal the path of the dark invaders Wischtech. Seven of them came home celebrated as saviors and rose to power as lords, while the four who actually finished the mission were branded the Lances of Betrayal. Years later, a youth named Köinzell travels the empire hunting those honored nobles one by one, carrying a grudge against the men the world remembers as heroes. His campaign of revenge cuts through a brutal medieval fantasy world.