"There is a legend that says when the earth is covered by a wicked, dark shadow, the Legendary Demon Warriors will come to save it..." Long ago, the wars of the ancient world that were waged and fought against the Legions of the Dead and their High Lord ruined the peace and tranquility of a great land called Maiaron. Magic, once a tool used for good and knowledge, became a corrupted and abused weapon, even after the defeat of the Dark One, and the world began to slip into a Dark Age. Alliances and oaths were broken or forgotten. Maiaron was transformed into a scattered, leaderless, and divided country. The different races of the world became exclusive and hardly strayed from their own borders. The Golden Age of Maiaron had come to a sudden end. For two thousand years, Maiaron was raped of its magic and beauty, and each passing century resulted in the decay of the work and dreams of those who had drawn Maiaron from the darkness of the Years of Chaos ten thousand years ago. How could eight thousand years of Enlightenment vanish so quickly? There are few who knew the answer. But now is not the time for tales of past glory and destruction. Now is the time for the tale of the two girls who would arise from this land of decaying culture and intellect-two girls whose unexpected gift of magic awakened an ancient, slumbering evil. In the Western Reaches of Maiaron, in a peaceful agrarian community, two young women, close in age, knew little of such things. A former aristocrat forced into slavery after the death of her parents, Jaenelle D'Artaigne hardly thought of herself as the heir to a lost magic of terrible and great power-the power of Death. She was the Necromancer, the woman chosen to wield the powers of the realm of the Dead-the ancient guardian of the lands of Maiaron. And what of her friend? Eowen, sold at a young age by her peasant parents to a neighboring farm for less than the price of a chicken, was also granted magical powers. While nowhere near as great as those of her friend's, Eowen was nonetheless caught in the backlash of the awakening of lost power and was given special, useful powers of her own-the power of Life. Life and Death. Light and Darkness. Two opposite powers wielded by two completely different people. Before the two girls could even comprehend their terrible new gifts, the Dark Lord began to launch his attack to reclaim all of Maiaron for his own, throwing all his creations, minions, and monsters at the Necromancer and her friend in an attempt to crush them before they became a real threat. But the powers of blood and oaths cannot be so easily undone. Maiaron has now become a battlefield once again-and its victory or defeat lies within the courage, determination, and strength of two women chosen by fate to end the horrors and corruption that began at the dawn of time. Together they will form a band of the hunted and cursed, the outcasts and outlaws, the warriors of Life and Death to battle the unstoppable forces of evil and rescue a once-glorious empire...