Life is cheap and short for the street rats of Skjøl, and such proves to be the case for D'hr'as Kaenna after a heist that draws the watchful eye of the Umbral Shields and their Otheiyran masters leads to her death. But the heist has also bound the Nival Heart to her, the physical essence of the Ageless, Nixuin. Reborn and empowered, Kaenna begins to exact her revenge, not realising that her resurrection has shattered the fragile Balance, the accord between the Ageless, and that she is now another pawn in an ancient conspiracy...