In a province ruled over by a powerful god, there exists two nations: the Horacks and the Nairabians. Each equally threatened by the power of the other and desperate to be in full control, the two nations are locked in a vicious war. The fate of the province lies with the Dathens, twelve of the god's top followers, rewarded for their loyalty with god-like gifts of their own. With each nation's six Dathens possessing the ability to bring their troops back from the dead, the violence is ceaseless, the brutality dragging on for almost two centuries. When Enron, the youngest son of a Horack Dathen, is conscripted into the army, he is unaware that his service will be far from conventional; a sinister scheme to eliminate all six enemy Dathens has been hatched, and the future of one nation hangs in the balance as the other threatens to finally turn the tide.