In 4326 AD, after a series of four escalating disasters, Stryker’s world is sparsely populated, primitive, and dangerous. All remaining societies fear the ancient technologies that led to the destructions. However, throughout the course of the four destructions, some people have developed control over their own internal energies. Stryker is born on the island of the Cleats, a warrior people who long ago left the rest of the world to itself and isolated themselves in the center of the middle sea. But when a whale hunt goes wrong, Stryker is ripped from this security and thrown into the dark conflict of the outside world.