A young knight named Peter Raion, who is about to be married, is sent to investigate a series of ritualistic animal sacrifices and discovers there are children that have been taken too. He confronts a sorceress and a giant knight in scaly armor, believed to have been killed twenty years ago, and they nearly kill him. With the help of an old monk named Ben Shaw who fought them long ago, he sets out to stop them but they will need the help of a pirate, two mages, and a changeling to discover how the two came back and what they plan to do. It is a dying world in many ways, but they must try to save the children, before the Scarlet Queen and the Crimson Knight finish what they started a generation ago.