Something's rotten in the state of Denmark. Or, rather, in the Thieves Guild on the levitating island of Strand. Specifically, that "something" is a group of mysterious raiders who seem to be able to appear and vanish at will, who slaughter their victims and leave the innocent Thieves Guild (well, innocent of this, anyway...) to face the wrath of an incensed cityguard, who aim to remedy the situation in much the same way that a guillotine remedies a headache. This spells trouble for the Guild's most notorious thief, Tythalon Delreth, who now finds his criminal enterprises interrupted by vengeful guardsmen on one hand and brutal killers on the other. Faced with the choice of either surrendering his evil ways or solving the mystery of these murderous raiders, Tythalon girds himself for adventure—largely with other people's belongings—and goes to work. Can he unmask the real villains before the blade drops on both the Thieves Guild and his own too-mortal neck