After many long years in exile, Dayless the Conqueror, previously a ruthless ruler known as the Great Bastard, confronts all of the atrocities that he had committed while in power and decides to take his own life. But the light has other plans in mind for him. Instead of the release of death that he craves, he is made young again. He must keep his identity a secret while he faces the world that he tortured and makes amends.