A year after his decisive military victory at Ternass, Curtis Macurdy returns through the Oz Gate to our side—"Farside" in the parlance of Yuulith. For he has lost his wife, and though victorious in war, considers himself defeated. Arriving back at his parent’s farm, he learns that a representative of the Sisterhood has been there seeking him, bringing with her two Tigers, elite killers. He can stay and wait for them to return, but for his parents' sake, it seems best to leave, go somewhere where the Sisterhood can't find him.