In the beginning, there was light: Ashlar Lightbringer, member of the Angelic Brightguard and nephew to the retired hero Jeddah Lightbringer, has vanished. While his family fear for his safety the Clergy, self appointed watchmen of Heaven, sharpen their tongues with rumours of forsaken vows and ready their swords for retribution. The race is on to determine his fate. And then the Light was separated from the Dark: Samgrim, newly spawned into the horrific, sweltering, gutted half light of Hell finds himself unaware of the act that has bought him this fate, but unable to escape the brutal fact...