Young Cat Calhoun’s carefully sheltered life takes an extraordinary turn after a fateful---and near fatal---encounter with a beautiful woman and murderous giant. Forced to leave his uncle and their modest farm behind, naÞive Cat finds himself thrown into a new world of pirates, politics and prophecies. Mentored by the infamous Captain Dante D’Arc aboard The Chimera, he lives and learns with a special breed of men far removed from the thieving profiteers of song and legend. Instead, he finds himself fighting alongside selfless men willing to give their lives in ending a threat against the Fallen Lands fragile peace.