Charon; avid explorer, treasure seeker and part-time mercenary, embarks on a doomed quest which leads him deep into uncharted territory. Driven there by an insatiable hunger for glory, he awakens a slumbering evil, unleashing it onto an unsuspecting world. A magical fiend is born, a terrible shape-shifter who can shed its skin like an insect each time it claims a host. It is a scavenger of souls, spreading death like a parasite as it lives and feeds on the corpse-rind of the world. The entire world is doomed. All hope is lost or so it seems...