All his life Conall had been plagued by strange dreams, though in his quiet island village of Cath na Crainn, little else had ever happened. He longed to leave and travel through the oceans, seeing great cities, far off countries. But when a strange creature appears during a violent storm, he is pushed into a life he could not have imagined. After his father is kidnapped, and the legends of his people begin to come to life, Conall is thrust onto a path where his fate and that of the entire world begin to entwine.