In the land where summer is one long day and winter
an endless night, a child is born to an aging couple
and christened Ambrosi.  With hair as black as sable
and skin as white as snow, he grows to be a storyteller
and a hunter.  But Ambrosi is no ordinary child and his
stories are no ordinary tales, for he has lain in the 
branches of the Great Iron Ash and a Shamen wants
him for an apprentice...