"There where I stood ... I awoke to the beauty of the realm I wandered, and yet death seemed to be hovering above me the deeper I dared to go." When traveling tribes happen on a vast, until then unruled region in quest of a place to settle, they claim the entire land theirs, all but conscious of the realm they have entered-that of beast. Three years later, Artias, the first man ever to have survived an encounter with a man-eater, decides to apprise everyone of these great critters that wake at the absence of light; unfortunately, he is unaware of the events that are to follow his arrival at a...