For many long years he has traversed the Shards of What Was, performing upon the ale-drenched tables of countless humble taverns, to the occasional courts where all the noble eat, breathe, and backstab. Sairik Gray, aspiring bard of Isle Melody, finds himself at a loss. He has yet to prove his worth to his guild and time is running out. To further complicate things, he finds himself at odds with a familiar rival... and worse, he finds himself drowned at the hands of a creature that he had once thought to be myth.