Following six hundred years of peace, the Christian kingdom, Shanastra, teeters on the brink of a new Dark Age. A priest, bored with monastery life, has turned to the Dark Arts. He resurrects the legendery Sorceress, Lady Kalma, and bungles the spell. Previously a stunning beauty, she is now a hideous lich, bent on vengeance. Allying herself with the heathen and psychopathic Earl Gunnar from neighbouring Dagorland, she begins to raise her Army of Dead from slaughtered Shanastrans and demonically mutated crows. The fate of Shanastra rests upon a bunch of unlikely heroes and one exceedngly odd goshawk.