Lund III, King of the Northern Frontier, is trapped in a hopeless, isolated city, surrounded by two hundred thousand orcs.
The city’s thirty thousand soldiers and civilians are running out of provisions, while the southern kingdoms look on and do nothing.
The only path to survival lies in a forbidden legend from the far north of the continent: the “Deathspeaker,” who can speak with the dead.
To gain a chance at survival, he pays with his throne, his memories, and a thousand years of solitude, and knocks on the gates of the underworld.
When he returns to the world of the living at the head of a silent army of the dead and crushes the orcish horde, he discovers that the real test has only just begun...
“I saved my country, but to the living, I have become a heretic.”
