Welcome to the Dark World. Here people hide behind the high walls of cities, and bloodthirsty creatures inhabit the world around. Here, flames and steel guard caravans hurrying along extinct tracts. Here, under the gloomy skies, Darian Dubs lives - an ordinary city dweller who, by the will of fate, found himself carrying - hard work for the guilty. But it is here, at the very bottom, that the gods give Darian real friends and a choice that will determine the rest of his life... After all, sometimes a series of seemingly random events can eventually form a great force and turn the world upside down.