It is a century or more since the Legions left Britain, and the land is menaced by Savages - the Saxon marauders from over the shallow sea, who ahve burned the great forests and destroyed the last flicker of Roman civilisation south of the Wall. So Mynydig, King of Eiddin, has rasied a war band of three hundred warriors, who will ride south through the devastated lands to the blood and glory of Cattraeth.