Seven talisman stones were said to have been torn from Clovenstone, the fabled blue opal of power, in a past so ancient that is exists only in legend. Harpers sing of a once proud unified Kildonan before the "the time of The Darke." Now Kildonan is a patchwork of petty feudal kingdoms, warring with each other. Histories, libraries, creativity had disappeared. Only scraps of the poetry and prophecy sung by harpers hint at the past-and the future. A professional warrior, an herbalist, and a harper hope they have three of the ancient talisman stones. Together, with dreams of reunifying Kildonan,...

The seven bearers of the seven stones of power broke the enchantment that freed their hereditary castle of Iodha. They ruled Kildonan from the castle for just one year before our tale begins. The Stonebearers discover that an ancient threat, Darke Magick, undermines their powers and works to seize their land of Kildonan. Not only that, but the challenger has loosed upon the land the ancient scourge, the Horde, mindless thralls that kill by suffocating their victims. The thralls can only be overcome by the magick rays from the Seven Stones, or by-fire Along with the seven Stonebearers, a fyr...