Seven years after the Old Triton Empire fell to Altaria's vast legions of Phaeons and Dreanalai witches at the Battle of Ashfall, the mountain god Monmut choses a cobbler's son from a sleepy village to be its face in the world and rekindle the Orchard Wars with an ancient army at his back. . . So begins the fate of Wilhem of Ashfall, who will either restore balance to the scales of power or once again raze the continent to ash. . .