Soldier, slave, lord, lover. Casca ha been all of these in two and half centuries of existence, but nothing he had encountered had prepard him for what he was about to experience next. Sailing west from Helsfjord, he and his intrepid band of adventuring Vikings find a strange, foreign lake where snakes have rattles, the swamps contain hideous creatures, and the warriors took captives to sacrifice on alters in their blook soaked temples. Taken prisoner Casca is sacrificed to the savage gods, but the man that cannot die reclaims his heart and rises from the alter to become a god himself among the Teotec.