The Nameless Dwarf awakens from a year-long slumber, tortured by memories of slaughter. He has become an outcast, a butcher, the most reviled of dwarven kind.

Meanwhile, forces of unimaginable destruction coalesce around the mountain fortress of a mad sorcerer, and the philosopher Aristodeus assembles a team of four unlikely heroes for a last desperate attempt to avert the destruction of all things:

A pious knight with a wavering faith;

An assassin with no idea who or what he really is;

A woman with an enchanted blade that evokes the memory of the Black Axe;

And a dwarf with no name who will either carve out his own redemption or condemn the world to a night that will never end.