While chopping down dead trees in the forest the farmer Grimrose has run afoul of worgs - wolves bred for warfare - in the woods west of Dangarn Vale, but these worgs seem to have a particular interest in the farmer. Who or what has sent the worgs, he doesn't know, but if he and his family are to survive the winter he will have to learn quickly... With only his arming sword and a stout bow in hand he must find a way to defeat the worgs...