The Ronin were legendary heroes -- warriors that guarded the nine Great Kingdoms. But now they're just dark rumors, bards tales told in cozy amber lit inns. Dark stories told to children of fallen heroes who turned on those they were meant to protect and nearly destroyed the world. Gray, Ayva and Darius don't buy the dark tales. But they have to hope they're right... When out of the shadows the legends return, wreathed in flames, water, stone, moon, sun, leaf, and even flesh and metal, Gray and his friends discover they are the dark legends reborn.

Now they must travel to the other nine Great Kingdoms, prove they aren't evil, and find the rest of their brothers and sisters before a rising darkness consumes the world...