When the seventeen year old Mathew Lewin set out to compete in the annual Spring Festival''s much anticipated fencing championship, he could not possibly imagine how radically his life would change afterwards, for the first prize in the competition, an enigmatic rose-gold ring, is also a artefact of an ancient and once great civilization and it harbors terrible powers. With tragic consequences, the ring draws the monstrous Orloch warriors to the sleepy village of Devondale. As Mathew and his friends flee from their enemies, he slowly begins to master the ring''s incredible abilities. But his persecutors include no less than the ruthless tyrant Karas Duren - who too wears a ring with fearful powers.