Daire Tiernan has always had strange underwater abilities and an affinity with the creatures living in the lake near his mountain village. One of the Ocean's Children, Daire Tiernan was raised far from the sea, hidden from his cursed destiny and those who would use him.

When strangers come to their village, claiming Daire is the long lost Champion of the Sea—cursed to unleash the angered god of Ruin upon the world, his friends Paedra and Kael are determined to make sure Daire gets to the ocean in one piece.