Neil Maffin

Lisa's husband, Bill, abuses her. With her sister's encouragement, she takes their three kids and leaves her husband. Bill keeps interfering with Lisa's attempts at a new life. She gets an order of protection against him, but the police can't do anything else to help her. One night Bill breaks into Lisa's apartment and shoots her. As she dies in the hospital, Lisa asks her sister to promise to take care of her three children. The sister takes the kids into her home, but Bill is still on the loose, an ever present threat.

舞台は1000年前の北欧。大使として辺境の地を訪れた詩人アハメッドはバイキングの傭兵たちと出会うが、彼らの故郷が危機に瀕していることを知る。巫女のお告げで13人の戦士が選ばれるが、アハメッドもその中に含まれていた。霧深い森に分け入った一行は、そこで創造を絶する魔物と遭遇する……。