On a world at once removed and akin to our own three men, strangers to each other, seek the power of fabled relics known to all as the Holy Remnants. A defeated warlord joins a crusade to save his own skin. A nomad robbed by slavers of his family seeks vengeance and perhaps redemption. A half-breed outcast flees the wrath of his countrymen that he should dare to take the wife of a nobleman. What each seeks, for his own reasons, may unleash power and knowledge hidden from their world by their forebears and, perhaps, by their Gods.