Revenge comes on the black wings of seith magic. Steinarr the Neibelung is killed, leaving the thralls Vanadis and Gamli as the sole survivors. When Steinarr's nephew, Hardegon the Trusted, stumbles upon his town's gruesome remains, when he discovers the thralls' Volsung roots, it rekindles an ancient feud. Vanadis and Gamli flee Hardegon's wrath, sailing on winds that take them from the shores of Pohjola to the Baltic sea. Their desperation mingles with Hardegon's fury and they cut a swath of chaos across the East. Banished from Alands, loathed in Kalevala, and feared in Skane, they make a...