Aston Fisk serves the Mercian crown as part of a sect of assassins, known only as the Inquisitors. Abducted from birth and trained extensively in the arts of subterfuge and interrogation, he is selected to "eliminate" the leader of a well known Heretical group - the Orphites- before they can open a gate to then Black Realm and unleash the swarms of the undead upon Human kind. As he nears his target, he is flung through the portal into a world starkly contrasting to his own, along with a majority of the Orphites, who quickly decide that this new world they've stumbled upon should be destroyed as well.