HOTR is a story of one man’s battle to win a city’s freedom from generations of civil war.
To defeat a ruthless tyrant and atone for the numberless sins of a past life spent in butchery, De Nomalous must risk his own damnation.
The two halves of the city of Venedor are at war, their inhabitants trapped. For any outside the walls after sunset are slaughtered. The Reavers are deathless, hateful, insane. Cursed to anguished torment until the end of time, denied the city by the will of a deity that may no longer exist.
Now the cruel and capricious Steward of the North plans to breach the midwall, unite Venedor under his iron rule. To stop him, De Nomalous must ally with the oppressed Bestials and make sense of the dreams that still haunt him. One Reaver lives still, one yet to pass into shadow. One at war with himself.
He must find the Gauntlet of war, cause for damnation of his twisted comrades of antiquity. Use it to unleash them against the Northern army, risking his own corruption even as the man he has become fights for dominance against the man that he was. A man capable of every atrocity.