It is three hundred years since the world toppled on its axis, bringing the tidal waves and earthquakes to swallow centuries of civilization. In the years that followed, as mankind struggled painfully to conquer a savagely reshaped world, new evils rose from the wilderness: brigands and killers, war-makers and thieves. From these wild lands comes a rider, seeking a lost city. Jon Shannow, called the Jerusalem Man, desires only peace... but the times demand that he wage war. For the edges of the Plague Lands have spawned a new terror: Abaddon, self-styled Lord of the Pit, and his Hellborn army, with their terrible weapons and obscene rituals. Only one man dares to challenge them: The Jerusalem Man.