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In the height of the Viking era¸ Alfred the Great strives with every movement to solidify his power in Wessex while the Danes hunger for Mercia and the East. The great Emperor Charlemagne has been dead for almost seventy years and the massive vacuum of power left in the wake of his passing still stirs massive political currents across the world. In the North¸ Jarls vie for power¸ tempting some with silver and yet keeping hands ever-close to the hilts of shining blades. Horrors and legends roam the shadows and the forgotten places--nightmares given flesh and bone. Among the warriors of the North the price of leadership is paid in blood. Bonds of kinship and patronage are torn asunder in a killing haze. Young Erlik Rowenson's skein is bound in threads of iron and gold.