In the far future, centuries after a devastating biological war, civilization has been reduced to a Medieval-like existence. In a land called the Greylands, it is a world of kings and warriors, where magic exists and powerful sorcerers vie for power.

A mysterious wandering mercenary known only as the Shadow Maker, a man possessed of a dark and dangerous power, searches the Greylands for a power-hungry sorcerer named Xanatos, who seeks the long-lost artifacts of an ancient warrior-king. With the help of an escaped slave-girl, a gruff but gentle mountain man, his skeptical wife, and a traveling bard and pickpocket, the Shadow Maker hunts down the sorcerer to an island called Darkhaven, the rumored location of a long-lost temple that hides a terrible secret that could spell the end of the world, or the creation of a new one!