After incurring the displeasure of their lord, three samurai escape captivity and become rōnin. The warriors set out from their homeland for the Twin Cities, a nation that suppresses magic and where corruption and murder are rife. The trio soon meets Adrienne de Valaincourt, a street rat duelist of noble origin and her yōkai spirit pet, Fuwafuwa. The samurai need money, and Adrienne has dreams of becoming the captain of a mercenary company—and right now, she has job that suits them all.
Lawrence Caldwell is believed by some to be a wandering samurai, or a vagrant, or possibly a ninja—though perhaps in his infinite mystery, he is none of these things. Whichever the case, he wanders home as Odysseus did after the great Trojan War in some realm unbeknownst to our world (or was that Elric of Melniboné?) It matters not. Finally, and—by direct theft of a quote from a certain dwarf named Varric Tethras—he “occasionally writes books.”