Avis Grayson is the legendary founder who pacified the wasteland before renouncing his terrifying mantle to raise his only child as an unassuming merchant. His quiet existence shatters on his daughter Anne's wedding day, when her arrogant aristocratic groom assaults her and casts her from a parapet.
With Anne lingering in a critical coma, the gentle shopkeeper reclaims his supreme authority and unleashes the brutal forces of the subterranean district. Avis tears through the privileged clans who harmed his child, hunting down every conspirator while shielding a mysterious healer who mirrors his late wife.
