It is late summer when High Commander John Williams learns that raiders have attacked a nearby village and le¬ only four survivors. Charged with protecting Baxter, a heavily fortified frontier town of nine thousand, Williams soon determines something is not right. Still, he has a town to protect and pushes aside his foreboding feeling. When he learns enemies disguised as townsfolk have infiltrated Baxter, Williams stands with his fellow militiamen to defend his people from evil forces and prevent an apocalypse. But the stakes are high. If he fails, mankind will be erased from the world in crimson re. Now as a Prophet decides to take matters into his own hands, a mysterious old man sows the seeds of destiny as a Cult of Skulls continues their dark mission. Without images or wizards to rely on since their battle long ago with the Skulls along the western coast of Aldera, it seems Williams and his men have their work cut out for them. In this fantasy tale, a High Commander and his militiamen must do everything in their power to protect their town that has lost its purpose to time and stop evil forces desperate to destroy humanity forever.