Fleeing the vengeance of a Talion master, Torun's family exiled to the other end of the world. The young dwarf then found himself without a mentor to teach him the art of forgery. The village priest proposed to take him as a disciple so that he could succeed him. Death in the soul, he was about to accept when his path crossed that of a half mad hermit, a dwarf living like a beast at the bottom of the woods...