Greatsword Franz Vogel and his men have endured a blood-spattered onslaught by the Hordes of Chaos and lived to tell the tale. But the primordial forest into which these survivors fled holds its own secrets, both sacred and profane. For deep in the northern wilderness lies the cloistered stone keep of an enigmatic sisterhood ? where Vogel and his band will find either deliverance or eternal damnation?