Set in Reaper Miniature's land of Taltos, Ian is a teenage boy living in the relatively peaceful lands protected by the Crusaders. When slavers from a bordering realm rip his family apart, Ian decides to join the ranks of the Knights of the Ivy Crown as a magic-wielding mage, one of the forces that make up the Crusader faction, with the goal of helping protect his home from future atrocities such as the one he endured. As fate would have it, Ian joins up just in time for the Crusaders to go up against one of the most evil armies in all of Taltos- the vampires of Necropolis Thule...