In the glittering courts and gilded canals of D''''Oro, Alessio is but a humble indentured servant; As a clerk and trader for a powerful merchant family he is used to using nothing but his wits and guile to rise in station. But when a violent storm casts him far from his homeland and wrecks him on the inhospitable shores of the icy lands of Alban, the threads of his fate are irrevocably altered.